Health behaviours explain part of the differences in self reported health associated with partner/marital status in The Netherlands.

Joung, Inez M.A.; Stronks, Karien; Mheen, H. van de; Mackenbach, Johan P.

doi:10.1136/jech.49.5.482

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“…A spouse, whether male or female, can provide personal care [35], which may have other kinds of beneficial effects such as support. In addition, a spouse can stimulate positive health behaviors [36]. It is suggested that a male spouse may not be as effective as a caregiver for women [37], which makes men more dependent on their woman and women more dependent on a caregiver, because their husband has already died.…”

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Resources as a Protective Factor for Negative Outcomes of Frailty in Elderly People

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Background: Although frailty is often conceptualized in terms of deficits, the level of frailty can be perceived as a complex interplay between deficits and resources. Objective: We studied whether resources such as educational level, financial situation, and living-alone status moderate the negative effects of deficits on two potentially adverse consequences of frailty: self-perceived health and receiving professional care. Methods: Logistic regression analysis was performed with data from a cross-sectional survey, designed by the public health service in the south of the Netherlands. The questionnaire was completed by a representative sample of people aged 70 and over (n = 5,559). Interaction effects between deficits (multimorbidity, difficulty performing ADLs, psychological distress, loneliness) and resources (educational level, financial situation, living-alone status) were studied in relation to self-perceived health and receiving professional care. Results: We found that in males the effect of difficulty in performing ADLs on self-perceived health was modified by educational level (p < 0.05, indicating that difficulty in performing ADLs is more strongly related to moderate/bad self-perceived health for those with higher education). In females, the effect of psychological distress on self-perceived health was modified by educational level (p < 0.05, indicating that suffering from psychological distress is more strongly related to moderate/bad self-perceived health for those with higher education) and the effect of difficulty in performing ADLs on receiving professional care was modified by living-alone status (p < 0.05, indicating that difficulty in performing ADLs was more strongly related to receiving professional care for those women who lived alone). Conclusions: Resources moderate the impact of personal deficits on self-perceived health and receiving professional care. Some frail people seem to be more vulnerable as they lack resources such as a high level of education. This should be taken into account in deciding when elderly people are at risk of negative outcomes of frailty and is therefore important for health professionals and policy-makers.

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Resources as a Protective Factor for Negative Outcomes of Frailty in Elderly People

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“…In other words, healthier individuals are more likely to maintain relationships and individuals who are in relationships experience the protective effects they may offer. Specific reasons suggested (and to varying degrees supported by empirical research) for the positive affects of romantic relationships on health include: social support (Robles and Kiecolt-Glaser 2003;Seeman and Syme 1987), economic support (Hahn 1993;Wilson 2001), greater social integration and protection from stress among couples (Hahn 1993;Lewis 1997), an increased sense of meaning and purpose in life that may accompany a romantic relationship (Antonovsky 1979), and romantic partners' encouragement of positive health beliefs and health behaviors (Joung et al 1995;Markey et al 2005). In other words, an individual's physical and psychological experiences are affected by their relationships.…”

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Romantic Relationships and Health: An Examination of Individuals’ Perceptions of their Romantic Partners’ Influences on their Health

Markey

Gray

2007

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This study examines individuals' perceptions of the impact their significant others have on their health and the extent to which these perceptions are associated with relationship quality and actual health. Two-hundred and ten participants (105 U.S. couples; mean age=24.93) completed measures of their relationship quality and health along with an open-ended measure asking them to indicate how they felt their partner influenced their health. Results indicated that participants perceived their romantic partners to be primarily positive health influences, women believed their partners were more influential than did men, and eating and physical activity behaviors were believed to be most affected by partners. Participants' relationship quality and health were associated with their reports of their perceived partners' health influences.

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“…On the other hand, the proportion of diabetes mellitus among women in general living together with someone was significantly lower than that of those living alone [29], and this result was similar to ours. Generally, support from a partner might explain the lower proportion of diabetes mellitus among married persons [30,31]. Although our findings from this study would suggest that support for schizophrenic women by medical staff or family members, but not by husbands, was important, the association between diabetes mellitus and living arrangement or marital status among patients with schizophrenia needs to be confirmed by other cohorts.…”

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Socio-environmental factors associated with diabetes mellitus among patients hospitalized with schizophrenia in Japan

Sado

Kitamura

Noma³

et al. 2016

Environ Health Prev Med

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Objective This study aimed to examine epidemiologically socio-environmental factors associated with diabetes mellitus among patients hospitalized with schizophrenia in Japan. Methods This was a cross-sectional study from a single psychiatric hospital. Study patients were adults aged C20 years who were hospitalized with schizophrenia one or more times between January 2013 and December 2014. From electronic medical records or health insurance claims, we extracted schizophrenia patients with an F2 code according to ICD-10, and assessed the association of various factors with diabetes mellitus among these patients in a multivariable analysis. Results During the 2-year period, there were 1899 patients hospitalized with a psychiatric disorder one or more times. Of them, a total of 770 adults with schizophrenia (285 men and 485 women) were eligible for our analysis. The standardized prevalence ratio of diabetes mellitus was 2.0 [95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.6-2.5] among men and 3.0 (95 % CI 2.5-3.6) among women in this hospital. There were no socio-environmental factors associated with diabetes mellitus among men. Among women, factors such as a 730-day hospitalization [adjusted odds ratio (OR) 3.82: 95 % confidence interval (CI) 1.52-9.64], and a medical protection/compulsory/discrimination hospitalization (adjusted OR 0.60, 95 % CI 0.36-0.99) were associated with diabetes mellitus. Compared with women living alone, those who were unmarried and lived together with someone had a significantly lower adjusted OR (0.41, 95 % CI 0.21-0.81). Conclusions Socio-environmental factors such as length of hospitalization, type of hospitalization, and marital status and living arrangement were associated with diabetes mellitus among hospitalized women with schizophrenia.

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Health behaviours explain part of the differences in self reported health associated with partner/marital status in The Netherlands.

Cited by 121 publications

References 33 publications

Resources as a Protective Factor for Negative Outcomes of Frailty in Elderly People

Resources as a Protective Factor for Negative Outcomes of Frailty in Elderly People

Romantic Relationships and Health: An Examination of Individuals’ Perceptions of their Romantic Partners’ Influences on their Health

Socio-environmental factors associated with diabetes mellitus among patients hospitalized with schizophrenia in Japan

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