Social Stratification and Self-Management of Health

Cockerham, William C.; Lueschen, Guenther; Kunz, Gerhard; Spaeth, Joe L.

doi:10.2307/2136499

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“…The socioeconomically disadvantaged, among whom drug treatment clients are typically overrepresented, may be poorly placed to enact self-care without encouragement and support (Cockerham et al 1986;Evert et al 2003). It is notable that most of the self-care practices our participants described were free or low-cost activities.…”

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Managing Mental Health Problems in Everyday Life: Drug Treatment Clients’ Self-Care Strategies

Holt

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2007

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Little is understood about the self-care activities undertaken by drug treatment clients. Using data from a qualitative study of drug treatment and mental health we identify the self-care practices of drug treatment clients diagnosed with anxiety and depression. Seventy-seven participants were interviewed in four sites across Australia. Participants described a range of self-care practices for mental health including: self-medication, seeking social support, physical exercise, counselling-derived techniques, keeping busy and other less common strategies. These findings show that drug treatment clients undertake similar self-care practices to the general population and illicit drug users and that these activities echo beneficial practices identified in the research literature. The results suggest opportunities for service providers to work with clients on self-care activities that may improve mental health. Tensions between consumer and professional views of self-care, and the limits to encouraging self-care as a substitute for treatment, are discussed.

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Managing Mental Health Problems in Everyday Life: Drug Treatment Clients’ Self-Care Strategies

Holt

Treloar

2007

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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“…It also contained items, mostly adapted from the Symptom Checklist (Cockerham, Lueschen, Kunz, & Spaeth, 1986), for measuring physical symptoms. Specifically, subjects were asked whether they had experienced 12 different kinds of symptoms during the past 12 months: cough that lasted for 3 weeks or more, sudden feelings of weakness or faintness, diarr hea that lasted for 4 to 5 day s, shortness of breath after doing even light work, repeated indigestion or upset stomach, an unexplained loss of more than 10 kilograms of weight, repeated vomiting for 1 day or more, aching or sore muscles that lasted 2 to 3 day s, pains or swelling in any joint, occassional trouble sleeping at night, sore throat or running nose with a high fever for at least 2 days, and occasional heartburn after heavy meals.…”

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Coping with University-Related Problems

Essau¹,

Trommsdorff²

1996

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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The main aims of the present study were (a) to compare problem- and emotion-focused coping in students from North America (Canada and the United States), Germany, and Malaysia, and (b) to examine the association between coping and physical symptoms. A total of 365 undergraduates, 143 males and 222 females, participated in the study. The subjects' mean age was 22 years, and most were not married. In dealing with academic-related problems, Malaysians used substantially more emotion-focused coping than did North Americans and Germans. North American and German students who had high scores on emotion-focused coping experienced fewer symptoms, whereas the reverse relationship was found in the Malaysian group. The data on cultural preferences in coping and control behavior are discussed.

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“…Although research indicates low SES does not completely account for racial variations in health (Lillie, 1996;Williams, 1996), it is consistently associated with poorer health (Cockerham et al, 1986;d'Houtaud and Field, 1984;Herman, 1972;U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1988).…”

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“…Although financial issues may be one obvious reason for this, even with access to Medicaid and Medicare (as the latter often don't pay the entire bill), their disadvantaged financial position may not be the main reason for their low use of medical services (Crandall and Duncan, 1981;Rundall and Wheeler, 1979). There are simply not as many medical services available to those of low SES and the services that are available are often inadequate and understaffed (Cockerham et al, 1986;Taylor, 1995). Low SES individuals are also less likely to have a regular physician, which is associated with low utilization of services (Kronenfeld, 1978;Wan and Grey, 1978).…”

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Psychosocial correlates of health status among Asians, Caucasians, and multiracial subjects

2000

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The present study assessed the relationship between race and physical health in a multicultural sample. When controlling for a variety of health risk factors, the results revealed a significant relationship between race and recent and chronic physical symptoms (i.e., minor health problems) as well as past major health problems. Multiracial individuals reported more health problems than Asians or Caucasians. These findings may reflect the differences in diet and socioeconomic status (SES) as well as conditions associated with low SES such as decreased likelihood of seeking medical services and a variety of psychosocial variables.

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Social Stratification and Self-Management of Health

Cited by 67 publications

References 31 publications

Managing Mental Health Problems in Everyday Life: Drug Treatment Clients’ Self-Care Strategies

Managing Mental Health Problems in Everyday Life: Drug Treatment Clients’ Self-Care Strategies

Coping with University-Related Problems

Psychosocial correlates of health status among Asians, Caucasians, and multiracial subjects

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