Social support, adversities and emotional distress in an Italian community sample

Zimmermann-Tansella, Christa; Donini, Stefano; Galvan, Umberto; Rizzetto, Annalisa; Turrina, Cesare; Siciliani, Orazio; Wilkinson, Greg

doi:10.1016/0895-4356(93)90010-x

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“…As noted in other Italian studies, it seems that community ties would be less important than strong family relationships in preventing emotional distress [34]. The lower risk of MI found in farmers and in people with a large family may give indirect indications of a protective effect of high family support and other related psychosocial and behavioural factors.…”

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confidence: 79%

Family history and socioeconomic factors as predictors of myocardial infarction, unstable angina and stroke in an Italian population

Vitullo

Marchioli²,

Mascio³

et al. 1996

Eur J Epidemiol

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A comprehensive case-control study was conducted in an Italian region in order to compare the influence of family history of cardiovascular events, socioeconomic factors, social networks, and their joint associations with major risk factors, on the risk, of myocardial infarction (MI), unstable angina (UA) and ischemic stroke (IS). A total of 513 patients with MI, 178 with UA, 237 with IS, and 928 hospitalised controls were recruited. The odds ratio (OR) of MI for two or more relatives with a positive history of MI was 3.6 (95% CI: 1.8-7.3). Family history of MI was predictive for UA (OR = 5.8; 95% CI: 1.2-28.7), but not for IS. A family history of stroke was more associated with the risk of MI than of IS. After adjustment for known risk factors, the OR of MI for more educated people was 2.1 (1.3-3.6) compared with less-educated people. Large family size seemed to be protective for MI. The effect of major risk factors on MI ranged from additive (diabetes) to multiplicative jointly with high education and family history of MI. A family history of stroke increased IS risk threefold jointly with smoking and hyperlipidemia, and eightfold with diabetes. Besides a family history of MI and IS, in this community a higher educational status seems to better identify groups at increased risk of MI. The joint associations have important preventive implications since by identifying high-risk individuals (for MI and IS) a more careful assessment and control of risk factors amenable to intervention may be performed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Family history and socioeconomic factors as predictors of myocardial infarction, unstable angina and stroke in an Italian population

Vitullo

Marchioli²,

Mascio³

et al. 1996

Eur J Epidemiol

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“…A Total Social Support score ranges from 12 to 84, with higher scores corresponding to high support and better adjustment to stress (Bolger & Eckenrode 1991, Grassi et al 2000. The MSPSS was used in order to gain a measure of a possible mediator between stress and psychophysiological response to stress, as suggested by previous studies (Zimmermann-Tansella et al 1993, Shields 2004).…”

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Modulation of clinical expression of plaque‐induced gingivitis: effects of personality traits, social support and stress

Trombelli

Scapoli

Tatakis

et al. 2005

J Clinic Periodontology

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“…By these means we attempted to help augment the relative scarcity of epidemiological data concerning the Italian general population [35]. In fact, a series of studies has employed self-report measures in community samples as an index of minor psychiatric morbidity [36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42], while interview-based general population surveys have limited the investigation to single diagnostic categories such as mood [13, 43, 44, 45, 46], anxiety [14]and somatoform [15, 47]disorders. Other studies have considered only selected age groups [48, 49, 50, 51]or have evaluated point prevalence of both anxiety and depressive disorders in small samples [52, 53].…”

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The Sesto Fiorentino Study: Background, Methods and Preliminary Results

Faravelli

Abrardi

Bartolozzi

et al. 2004

Psychother Psychosom

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Background: This paper presents lifetime prevalences and estimated risks of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders from a community survey conducted in Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, using psychiatric interviewers with clinical experience and clinical instruments. Methods: Two thousand five hundred subjects aged 14 or more were randomly selected from the lists of 15 general practitioners (GPs) regardless of wheter or not they had consulted the GP. A three-phase design was adopted, with the GPs using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) for the first stage. All positive cases at the MINI and a probability sample of 123 negative cases were re-interviewed by psychiatrists or trained residents in psychiatry using the Florence Psychiatric Interview (FPI) at the second stage. During phase III, the subjects were administered the rating scales specific to the pathology detected by the FPI. Results: Two thousand three hundred and sixty-three subjects were interviewed (response rate 94.5%) by their own GP; 623 were found positive for any psychiatric disorder. The psychiatrists could re-interview 605 of these, along with a random sample of 123 negatives. Almost twenty-five percent (24.4%; 15.7% males, 31.7% females) of the population was found positive for any DSM-IV disorder during their lives. The most common diagnosis was major depressive episode, followed by anxiety not otherwise specified. Women had higher rates for most disorders. Conclusions: The prevalence rates for most of the disorders considered are generally comparable with the range identified by previous studies conducted in other Western countries, even though they were using different methodologies. Exceptions are represented by the high prevalence of residual categories and the lower prevalence of phobias.

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Social support, adversities and emotional distress in an Italian community sample

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

Family history and socioeconomic factors as predictors of myocardial infarction, unstable angina and stroke in an Italian population

Family history and socioeconomic factors as predictors of myocardial infarction, unstable angina and stroke in an Italian population

Modulation of clinical expression of plaque‐induced gingivitis: effects of personality traits, social support and stress

The Sesto Fiorentino Study: Background, Methods and Preliminary Results

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