Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.

Idler, Ellen L.; Angel, Ronald J.

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“…The risk of non-differential misclassification is probably of minor importance in this study, because non-differential misclassification tends to attenuate true differences, and this study shows significant differences between the social participation/trust combination categories in the initial stages of the analyses. Self reported health status is a valid indicator of health and chronic diseases; it has been stated that self reported health is a valid indicator of health in middle aged populations (Miilunpalo et al 1997), strongly related to chronic diseases and physicians ratings of health status (Wilson and Kaplan 1995;Goldstein et al 1984), and cohort mortality in the USA (Idler at al. 1990;Grant et al 1995;Schoenfeld et al 1994), and Sweden The overlap between the sub-item "sports event" in the social participation item and the leisure time physical activity item is probably low, because the "sports event" subitem is designed to measure activities such as being a spectator of a soccer game, while the leisure time physical activity item measures the extent of physical activity (indirectly in terms of energy expenditure).…”

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Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Ali

Merlo

Rosvall

et al. 2006

Social Science & Medicine

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Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Ali

Merlo

Rosvall

et al. 2006

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Given these limitations, the PILL has been shown to be associated with additional health indices, such as treatment seeking, activity restriction, and aspirin use (see Methods). Also, general physical symptoms and symptoms associated with particular organ systems are facets of health status that have demonstrated relationships to other indices of health, such as medical prognosis, health risk behaviors, and morbidity (Idler and Angel, 1990;Segovia et al, 1989). A similar limitation is that trauma-related sleep disturbance was measured by self-report, and objective documentation of sleep disturbance would be useful.…”

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Trauma-Related Sleep Disturbance and Self-Reported Physical Health Symptoms in Treatment-Seeking Female Rape Victims

Clum

Nishith

Resick

2001

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

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The purpose of the study was to assess the relationship between trauma-related sleep disturbance and physical health symptoms in treatment-seeking female rape victims. A total of 167 participants were assessed for PTSD symptoms, depression, sleep disturbance, and frequency of self-reported health symptoms. Results demonstrated that trauma-related sleep disturbance predicted unique variance in physical health symptoms after other PTSD and depression symptoms were controlled. The findings suggest that trauma-related sleep disturbance is one potential factor contributing to physical health symptoms in rape victims with PTSD.Violence against women yields a variety of deleterious effects, both direct and indirect, on objective and subjective indices of physical health (Resnick et al., 1997). In addition to psychological reactions to trauma such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, women who have experienced criminal victimization report a variety of physical symptoms that range across bodily systems, including cardiovascular, gynecological, respiratory, musculoskeletal, and dermatological systems (Kimerling and Calhoun, 1994;Koss et al., 1991).Several studies have demonstrated that PTSD is a mediating factor in the relationship between trauma exposure and reports of elevated health symptoms in women Wolfe et al., 1994). Researchers have proposed multiple biological mechanisms to explain the impact of PTSD on health (Friedman and Schnurr, 1995). Among these proposed mechanisms is the chronic autonomic hyperarousal (Koss and Heslet, 1992;McFarlane et al., 1994) and sleep disturbance associated with PTSD (Friedman and Schnurr, 1995). The hypothesized link between autonomic arousal and physical health was bolstered by the recent finding that the hyperarousal symptom cluster of PTSD was the strongest of the PTSD symptom subclusters in predicting both total health symptoms and global health perception in a sample of women veterans .Given the observed relationships between PTSD, particularly hyperarousal symptoms, and health outcomes, and the potential impact of biological alterations associated with a PTSD diagnosis, we hypothesized that sleep disturbance associated with psychological reactions to trauma may be an important predictor of health symptoms. Sleep disturbance has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including immune system alterations, cardiovascular incidents, and general health symptoms (Kales et al., 1984;Newman et al., 1997). Further, in a study investigating the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, self-reported sleep disturbance mediated between PTSD symptoms and an index of immune functioning (NKCC levels;Ironson et al., 1997 Recent research suggests that, in addition to PTSD symptoms, depressive symptoms are important in the prediction of self-reported health symptoms after trauma Wolfe et al., 1999). A diagnosis of depression independent of trauma exposure has been linked to poorer reported health and immune system alterations (Miller et al., 1999;Schulberg ...

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“…The following Health Indicator instruments were selected: Health Distress (measures worry and concern caused by chronic illness, 5 items [23]), Self-Rated Global Health (this item comes from the National Health Survey and has been found to be predictive of future health status, 1 item [23]), Activity Limitations (measures role function, 4 items [22]), Health Assessment Instrument (measures disability and is used in the National Health Survey, 20 [22,26]) and Hospitalizations (self report of number of times hospitalized in past 4 months [22,26]). …”

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A disease‐specific self‐help program compared with a generalized chronic disease self‐help program for arthritis patients

Lorig¹,

Ritter²,

Plant³

2005

Arthritis & Rheumatism

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Objective. Both the Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP) and the generic Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) have been shown to be successful in improving conditions in patients with arthritis. This study compared the relative effectiveness of the 2 programs for individuals with arthritis. Methods. Patients whose primary disease was arthritis were randomized to the ASMP (n ‫؍‬ 239) or to the CDSMP (n ‫؍‬ 116). Analyses of covariance were used to compare the outcome measures for the 2 programs at 4 months and 1 year. Measures included quality of life outcomes (self reported, health distress, disability, activity limitation, global health, pain, and fatigue), health behaviors (practice of mental stress management, stretching and strength exercise, aerobic exercise), self efficacy, and health care utilization (physician visits and hospitalizations). Results. Both programs showed positive results. The disease-specific ASMP appeared to have advantages over the more generic CDSMP for patients with arthritis at 4 months. These advantages had lessened slightly by 1 year. Conclusion. The disease-specific ASMP should be considered first where there are sufficient resources and participants. However, both programs had positive effects, and the CDSMP should be considered a viable alternative. KEY WORDS. Patient education; Self management; Arthritis; Randomized trial. INTRODUCTIONThe Chronic Care model and the Institute of Medicine have established self-management programs as a necessary component of good care for persons with chronic disease (1-5). Within the model, such programs are known as self-management support, which is how providers and systems support patients in their self-management efforts. Over the past 2 decades, there have been many examples of effective self-management support (2,6). Most of these programs have been disease specific, whereas a few are more generic. One of the major questions arising from past self-management studies is how to best understand the effectiveness of different programs. In this report, we examine the specific issue of the relative effectiveness of a disease-specific self-management program versus a generic self-management program for individuals with arthritis and discuss the policy implications for the findings.The Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP), also known as the Arthritis Self-Help Course and Challenging Arthritis, is now more than 25 years old. It has been found to be useful for persons with arthritis (7-9).In the past 10 years, the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), also known as the Expert Patient Program, has been developed and evaluated (8,10,11). Unlike the ASMP, the CDSMP is a generic program that individuals with many different types of chronic conditions attend at the same time. In an initial randomized study, persons with arthritis who attended the CDSMP workshop showed improvements in health behaviors and health status (12). Both the ASMP and the CDSMP are large programs in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zeala...

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Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.

Cited by 768 publications

References 9 publications

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Social capital, the miniaturisation of community, traditionalism and first time acute myocardial infarction: A prospective cohort study in southern Sweden

Trauma-Related Sleep Disturbance and Self-Reported Physical Health Symptoms in Treatment-Seeking Female Rape Victims

A disease‐specific self‐help program compared with a generalized chronic disease self‐help program for arthritis patients

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