Self-perceived health status, gender, and work status

Pino-Domínguez, Lara; Navarro-Gil, Patricia; González-Vélez, Abel E; Prieto-Flores, María-Eugenia; Ayala, Alba; Rojo-Pérez, Fermina; Fernández-Mayoralas, Gloria; Martinez‐Martín, Pablo; Forjaz, Maria João

doi:10.1080/08952841.2015.1018030

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“…Perceived health status was associated with lower disability and fewer chronic diseases, sleeping well, increased weekly exercise, and healthy eating (Mediterranean diet) including a moderate drinking of wine or beer during meals. Similar associations have been found in other studies, where perceived health was found to be strongly associated with physical and functional health, among others [26].…”

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Health Status Perception of People Close to Retirement Age: Relationship with Mental Health and Healthy Habits

Monge-Martín¹,

Caballero-Martínez²,

Forjaz³

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Background: The ageing of today's society intensifies the need for the correct and healthy ageing of the elderly, in order to ensure their overall well-being. Practical strategies are needed to acquire healthy habits at this stage of life. The aim of this study is to analyse the life habits of subjects close to retirement age and the factors that could influence these habits (gender, physical and mental health). Methods: A national (Spain) observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, in which people close to retirement age are surveyed. The online survey included matters regarding socio-demographic, family, work, leisure, social participation and health indicators. Results: The study comprised of 1,700 participants (581 working; 714 retired), average age = 63 years (DT 5.7); 52% women. Most reported having a satisfactory social life (90%), living in pairs (74%), not smoking (80%), following a Mediterranean diet (73%) and taking medicines daily (70%). Disability (WHODAS-12) was higher in men (8.2 vs 6.5, p<0.001) although women showed more health problems and depression (mild-severe) (27% vs 17%, p<0.001), with a healthier diet and lower physical/work activity. The multivariate model showed a significant association of health status (EQ-VAS) with disability level, number of chronic diseases, sleep habits, exercise, diet, and alcohol consumption. When the level of depression was introduced, age and being a woman were also found to be related. In the subgroup of those retired or working (n=1295), retirees reported a better health status, associated with less disability, fewer chronic illnesses, lower depression, good eating and sleeping habits, and exercise. Conclusions: The results show that retirement does not necessarily mean worse health, but rather an opportunity in life to reinforce favourable health activities and correct those lifestyle factors that deteriorate it. This, together with the differences observed according to gender in the perception of clinical and psychological health, will allow for the design of strategies that promote healthy ageing.

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Health Status Perception of People Close to Retirement Age: Relationship with Mental Health and Healthy Habits

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Caballero-Martínez²,

Forjaz³

et al. 2021

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“…The study showed that the older persons felt restricted by their diseases because their choices of activities were reduced and they felt lonely and isolated [ 35 ]. Other studies have reported that not being able to do leisure- and everyday activities was more strongly associated with poor self-rated health than medical diagnoses and chronic diseases [ 13 , 36 ].…”

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“…The tendency of women rating their health poorer than men has also been shown in a longitudinal study in Norway [ 11 ] as well as in a prospective study with data from Europe and USA [ 8 ]. Studies have shown that level of education is associated with self-rated health and that woman with low educational level or no work outside home rated their heath poorer than women with higher education [ 8 , 12 , 13 ]. There are also differences between countries regarding older persons’ self-rated health.…”

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Factors associated with self-rated health in a Norwegian population of older people participating in a preventive home visit program: a cross-sectional study

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Background Assessing self-rated health by preventive home visits of older people can provide information about the person’s well-being, quality of life and risk of developing illness. The aim of this study was to examine associations between self-rated health and factors related to demographics, lifestyle, health conditions and medical diagnoses by older people participating in a preventive home visit program. Methods A cross-sectional study including 233 participants (age 75–79) from three municipalities of Western Norway was conducted. Data were collected through preventive home visits performed by six nurses, using a questionnaire including self-rated health assessment and questions and tests related to demographics (e.g. education and housing), lifestyle (e.g. social activities, alcohol and smoking), health conditions (e.g. sensory impairment, pain and limited by disease) and medical diagnoses. Descriptive and inferential statistics including linear block-wise regression model were applied. Results The block-wise regression model showed that the variables Limited by disease and Pain were negatively associated with self-rated health and Use internet was positively associated. The model had a R 2 0.432. The variable that contributed to largest change in the model was Limited by disease (R 2 Change; 0.297, p -value< 0.001). Conclusions In the present study, being limited by disease and pain were strongly associated with poor self-rated health, indicating that these are important factors to assess during a preventive home visit. Also, digital competence (Use internet) was associated with a better self-rated health, suggesting that it could be useful to ask, inform and motivate for the use of digital tools that may compensate for or improve social support, social contact and access to health -related information.

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“…The Eurobarometer (2012) survey revealed that health leads the list of values associated with happiness in all European member states assessed except Denmark, where respondents first mention love. Several studies relate SGH with the human values of Stimulation (e.g., Sagiv and Schwartz 2000), Hedonism (e.g., Pino-Domínguez et al 2016), Achievement (e.g., Minkkinen et al 2017), Power (e.g., Verstraete et al 2018), Security (e.g., Norlander et al 2015), Conformity (e.g., del Pilar Sánchez-López et al 2014), Tradition (e.g., Baiocchi-Wagner andOlson 2016), Benevolence (e.g., Bevan and Sparks 2014), and Universalism (e.g., Hughes 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These disci-plines view human values as central to explaining how people select their options and justify their actions, assessing individuals and events and characterising cultural groups and societies (Schwartz 1992(Schwartz , 2012. Values have a significant place in understanding and predicting the motivational bases of attitudes and behaviour decisions (Poeller et al 2018;Schwartz 1992), while transcending specific situations and being unaffected by some variables, namely economic risk (Reeskens and Vandecasteele 2017). To think about human values means thinking about what is important in our life.…”

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Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe

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Human values are a central component in understanding individuals’ choices. Using the Schwartz’s Values instrument, this study aimed to identify patterns of human value priorities of 35,936 participants across 20 European countries and analyse their relations with subjective well-being (SWB), subjective general health (SGH), social life, and depression indices in Europe. A hierarchical cluster analysis of data from the seventh European Social Survey (ESS) round 7, based on the higher order dimensions of the Schwartz values model, allowed identifying four European groups with distinct indicators. Indices of SWB, SGH, social life, and depression showed statistically significant differences among the four different sociodemographic groups. The graphical representation of the monotonic correlations of each of these indices with the value priorities attributed to the ten basic human values was ordered according to the Schwartz circumplex model, yielding quasi-sinusoidal patterns. The differences among the four groups can be explained by their distinct sociodemographic characteristics: social focus, growth focus, strong social focus, and weak growth focus. The results of this study suggest a rehabilitation of the notion of hedonism, raising the distinction between higher and lower pleasures, with the former contributing more to well-being than the latter.

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Self-perceived health status, gender, and work status

Cited by 22 publications

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Health Status Perception of People Close to Retirement Age: Relationship with Mental Health and Healthy Habits

Health Status Perception of People Close to Retirement Age: Relationship with Mental Health and Healthy Habits

Factors associated with self-rated health in a Norwegian population of older people participating in a preventive home visit program: a cross-sectional study

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis of Human Value Priorities and Associations with Subjective Well-Being, Subjective General Health, Social Life, and Depression across Europe

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