The Relationship between Health State Perception on Multiphasic Personality in Chakra Meditation Experienced People

Humans are social animals; consequently, a lack of social ties affects individuals’ health negatively. However, the desire to belong differs between individuals, raising the question of whether individual differences in the need to belong moderate the impact of perceived social isolation on health. In the present study, 77 first-year university students rated their loneliness and health every 6 weeks for 18 weeks. Individual differences in the need to belong were found to moderate the relationship between loneliness and current health state. Specifically, lonely students with a high need to belong reported more days of illness than those with a low need to belong. In contrast, the strength of the need to belong had no effect on students who did not feel lonely. Thus, people who have a strong need to belong appear to suffer from loneliness and become ill more often, whereas people with a weak need to belong appear to stand loneliness better and are comparatively healthy. The study implies that social isolation does not impact all individuals identically; instead, the fit between the social situation and an individual’s need appears to be crucial for an individual’s functioning.

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Obesity and Mental Health: A Longitudinal, Cross-Cultural Examination in Germany and China

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.712567 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Kristen L. Lavallee ◽

Xiao Chi Zhang ◽

Silvia Schneider ◽

Jüergen Margraf

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Structural Equation Models ◽

Male Students ◽

Health State ◽

One Year ◽

The Relationship ◽

Chinese Male

The present study examines the relationship between obesity and mental health using longitudinal data. Participants with data at baseline and one-year follow-up were included from two countries: Germany (364) and China (9007). A series of structural equation models with three mediators and one moderator were conducted separately for female and male students in Germany and China. Zero-order correlations indicated that overweight/obesity was significantly related to later depression and anxiety in Chinese males. Additional effects of obesity on later mental health flowed through effects on attractiveness (Chinese and German females, and Chinese males), physical health (Chinese males), and life satisfaction (German females). Though overweight/obesity is related to mental health across many other studies, results in this study yield total effects between overweight/obesity and follow-up mental health only in Chinese males. The relationship between overweight/obesity and follow-up mental health was significantly mediated by follow-up attractiveness, or health state, or life satisfaction in German females, Chinese females, and Chinese male students, with no significant indirect effects found in German male students. This highlights the possible importance of culture in examining these effects.

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Relationship between obstetric history and recurrent urinary infections

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-98116-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cynthia Vanaclocha-Ferrer ◽

Barbara-Yolanda Padilla-Fernandez ◽

Magaly-Teresa Marquez-Sanchez ◽

María-Helena Garcia-Sanchez ◽

María-de-la-O Rodriguez-Martin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Good Health ◽

Study Groups ◽

Health State ◽

Anova Analysis ◽

Exact Test ◽

Obstetric History ◽

Urinary Infections ◽

Tract Infections ◽

The Relationship ◽

Good Health State

AbstractUrinary tract infections affect more than 50% of women. 25% derive from recurrent UTI (RUTI). It is not known the relationship between obstetric history and RUTI occurrence. Investigate the relationship between obstetric events and RUTI. Multicenter observational retrospective study. Groups: G.RUTI (n = 294): women with RUTI; G.NON.RUTI (n = 126): women without RUTI (treated and cured of renal cancer). Descriptive statistics, ANOVA analysis of variance (with Scheffe’s test for normal samples and Kruskal–Wallis for other distributions), Fisher's exact test, Pearson and Spearman correlation studies, and multivariate analysis multiple regression were used. Mean age 61.04 years (19–92), G.RUTI: 56.77 years SD 4.46 (19–85). G.NON.RUTI: 71 years SD 6.73 (25–92) (p = 0.0001). Obstetric history: Nulliparous G.RUTI: 20 (3.4%) G.NON.RUTI: 90 (71.42%) p 0.0001; Eutocic G.RUTI: 416 (70.74%) G.NON.RUTI: 30 (23.8%) p 0.0001. Dystocic G.RUTI: 58 (9.86%) G.NON.RUTI: 56 (44.44%) p 0.0001. G.RUTI abortion: 102 (17.34%) G.NON.RUTI: 30 (23.8%) p 0.1381. Hysterectomy without adnexectomy G.RUTI: 100 (17%) G.NON.RUTI: 18 (14.28%) p 0.5640. Hysterectomy with adnexectomy G.RUTI: 100 (17%) G.NON.RUTI: 66 (52.28%) p 0.0001. Nulliparity, dystocic delivery, and hysterectomy with adnexectomy are more frequent in women without RUTI, while eutocic births are more associated with RUTI. The most prevalent gynaecological-obstetric history in women with RUTI is eutocic delivery associated with a good health state.

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EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNET ADDICTION AND GENERAL HEALTH STATE IN MEN

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHES ◽

10.17360/uhppd.2016622370 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Meryem FIRAT ◽

Esra DEMİR ◽

Müslüm GÖKALP ◽

Süleyman BAŞAR ◽

Sercan TİKİT ◽

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Keyword(s):

Internet Addiction ◽

General Health ◽

Health State ◽

The Relationship

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The relationship among Mental Health Status (GHQ-12), Health Related Quality of Life (EQ-5D) and Health-State Utilities in a general population

Epidemiologia e Psichiatria Sociale ◽

10.1017/s1121189x00000518 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 229-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Pedro Serrano-Aguilar ◽

Yolanda Ramallo-Fariña ◽

Maria Del Mar Trujillo-Martín ◽

Sergio Raul Muñoz-Navarro ◽

Lilisbeth Perestelo-Perez ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Mental Health ◽

General Population ◽

Forecast Errors ◽

Health State ◽

Health Related Quality ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

The Relationship

SUMMARYAim – To assess the relationship between mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in the general population, and to map GHQ-12 as a screening test for population psychological distress to a generic health state measure (EQ-5D) in order to estimate health state values and allow deriving quality-adjusted life years. Methods – Relationship between mental health and HRQL was examined from the 2004 Canary Islands’ Health Survey. Participants were classified as probable psychiatric cases according to GHQ-12. HRQL was measured by the EQ-5D index. Multivariate lineal regression analysis was used to examine the association between mental health and HRQL adjusting by socio-demographic variables and comorbidities. A multivariate regression model was built from EQ-5D to estimate health states values using GHQ-12 as exposure. Results – EQ-5D index scores decreased as the GHQ-12 scores increased. Clinical and socio-demographic factors influenced HRQL without changing the overall trend for this negative relationship. The regression equation explained 43% of the variance. For estimation of utility scores, the model showed a high predictive capacity, with a mean forecast errors of 16%. Conclusions – HRQL progressively decreased when the probability of being a psychiatric case increased. Findings enable health state values to be derived from GHQ-12 scores for populations where utilities has not or cannot be measured directly.Declaration of Interest: Authors declare no conflicts of interest. This work was supported by the Quality Plan for the National Health Service (Spanish Ministry of Health and Social Policy).

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Study of Life Satisfaction and Determining Factors Among Yemeni Students Residing in Morocco

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202131902007 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 319 ◽

pp. 02007

Author(s):

Abdulrahman taresh yahya Omair ◽

Alemad Ali ◽

Abdelmajid Soulaymani ◽

Aberrazzak Khadmaoui

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Marital Status ◽

Health State ◽

Normal Life ◽

Determining Factors ◽

Two Factors ◽

The Relationship

A student’s life satisfaction is marked by four themes: the relationship to studies, budget, housing and health state. The objective of our work is to establish a profile of life satisfaction and support of Yemeni students residing in Morocco. The choice is made on a prepared questionnaire, which the characteristics of reliability, loyalty are important. The results show that 13.8% (n = 25) of Yemeni respondents residing in Morocco showed great self-dissatisfaction against 16.5% (n = 32) who responded satisfied with their life. However, 14.8% (n = 29) of the respondents showed great dissatisfaction with the support against 13.8% (n = 27) who responded satisfied with the support of their family and friends. Two factors have been shown to be associated with this behavior, namely marital status and city of residence. Therefore, the Moroccan and Yemeni authorities should face these risk factors by presenting adequate solutions so that these students lead a normal life.

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Systematic Review and Empirical Comparison of Contemporaneous EQ-5D and SF-6D Group Mean Scores

Medical Decision Making ◽

10.1177/0272989x11421529 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 31 (6) ◽

pp. E34-E44 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

David G. T. Whitehurst ◽

Stirling Bryan ◽

Martyn Lewis

Keyword(s):

Evaluation Research ◽

Economic Evaluations ◽

Health State ◽

Individual Level ◽

Level Data ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

Utility Scale ◽

The Relationship

Background. Group mean estimates and their underlying distributions are the focus of assessment for cost and outcome variables in economic evaluation. Research focusing on the comparability of alternative preference-based measures of health-related quality of life has typically focused on analysis of individual-level data within specific clinical specialties or community-based samples. Purpose. To explore the relationship between group mean scores for the EQ-5D and SF-6D across the utility scoring range. Methods. Studies were identified via a systematic search of 13 online electronic databases, a review of reference lists of included papers, and hand searches of key journals. Studies were included if they reported contemporaneous mean EQ-5D and SF-6D health state scores. All (sub)group comparisons of group mean EQ-5D and SF-6D scores identifiable from text, tables, or figures were extracted from identified studies. A total of 921 group mean comparisons were extracted from 56 studies. The nature of the relationship between the paired scores was examined using ranked scatter graphs and analysis of agreement. Results. Systematic differences in group mean estimates were observed at both ends of the utility scale. At the lower (upper) end of the scale, the SF-6D (EQ-5D) provides higher mean utility estimates. Conclusions. These findings show that group mean EQ-5D and SF-6D scores are not directly comparable. This raises serious concerns about the cross-study comparability of economic evaluations that differ in the choice of preference-based measures, although the review focuses on 2 of the available instruments only. Further work is needed to address the practical implications of noninterchangeable utility estimates for cost-per-QALY estimates and decision making.

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HYGIENIC SUBSTANTIATION OF OPTIMIZATION OF THE WORK OF CHILDREN’S DENTISTS IN MODERN CONDITIONS

Hygiene and Sanitation ◽

10.18821/0016-9900-2017-96-4-367-370 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 96 (4) ◽

pp. 367-370

Author(s):

A. S. Nekhoroshev ◽

A. V. Silin ◽

E. I. Morozova

Keyword(s):

Medical Staff ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Labor Process ◽

Health State ◽

Urgent Problem ◽

Psychosocial Characteristics ◽

Pediatric Dentists ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship ◽

Hygienic Conditions

The relationship between hygienic conditions of labor, health state and personal psychosocial characteristics of medical staff today proves to be the urgent problem. A specifics of the work of pediatric dentists is related to the impact of unfavorable environment factors on their bodies and the presence of the high psychophysiological load under working with children. It is interesting to study the features of the contemporary labor process to improve preventive measures aimed at optimizing the operation of children’s dentists.

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