Variability in self-rated health trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood by demographic factors

Sokol, Rebeccah L.; Ennett, Susan T.; Gottfredson, Nisha C.; Halpern, Carolyn Tucker

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.08.015

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“…The findings here have implications for policy and research, particularly regarding racial and ethnic disparities in SRH in youths [ 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 ]. Policies should target structural barriers that systematically hold Blacks back.…”

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Maternal Educational Attainment at Birth Promotes Future Self-Rated Health of White but Not Black Youth: A 15-Year Cohort of a National Sample

Assari

Caldwell

Mincy

2018

JCM

109

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Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is essential for maintaining health, and self-rated health (SRH) is not an exception to this rule. This study explored racial differences in the protective effects of maternal educational attainment at birth against poor SRH of the youth 15 years later. Methods: Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), this 15-year longitudinal study followed 1934 youths from birth to age 15. This sample was composed of White (n = 497, 25.7%), and Black (n = 1437, 74.3%) youths. The independent variable was maternal educational attainment at birth. SRH at age 15 was the dependent variable. Family structure was the covariate. Race was the focal moderator. We ran logistic regression models in the pooled sample, as well as stratified models based on race. Results: In the pooled sample, maternal educational attainment and family structure were not predictive of SRH for the youths at age 15. Race interacted with maternal educational attainment, indicating a stronger association between maternal educational attainment at birth on youth SRH for Whites compared to Blacks. In race stratified models, maternal educational attainment at birth was protective against poor SRH for White but not Black youths. Conclusion: White but not Black youths gain less SRH from their maternal educational attainment. Enhancing education attainment may not have identical effects across racial groups. The health status of Blacks may be less responsive to improvements in maternal educational attainment. Policies should go beyond investing in educational attainment by empowering Black families to better use the educational attainment that they gain. Policies and programs should reduce the costs of upward social mobility for minority families.

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confidence: 97%

Maternal Educational Attainment at Birth Promotes Future Self-Rated Health of White but Not Black Youth: A 15-Year Cohort of a National Sample

Assari

Caldwell

Mincy

2018

JCM

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“…Adolescents suffer multiple changes that could be related to a decrease in levels of LS (Casas, 2011) and variations in SRH (Zullig et al, 2018) during this developmental stage. For these reasons, investigating these variations throughout adolescence and young adulthood is important to directing preventive efforts (Sokol et al, 2017) and to facilitating health psychologists in creating programs in schools that would adjust to adolescents' needs. These programs could be aimed at reducing or preventing risk behavior or physical inactivity, thus improving the academic performance and social life of adolescents.…”

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Life Satisfaction and Self-rated Health in Adolescents: The Relationships between them and the Role of Gender and Age

2020

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationships between self-reported life satisfaction, self-rated health, gender, and age in adolescents. 1,141 secondary school students aged between 12 and 17 participated in our study. The data were analyzed using bivariate and nonlinear canonical correlation analyses. The results of the bivariate correlation analysis support the results of previous studies. Life satisfaction was positively correlated with same-day perceived health (r = .37; p < .01) and negatively correlated with anxiety/depression (r = –.37; p < .01). Same-day perceived health was positively correlated with health in the past 12 months (r = .38; p < .01) and negatively correlated with pain/discomfort (r = –.32; p < .01) and with anxiety/depression (r = –.32; p < .01). The nonlinear canonical correlation analysis provided further evidence of the relationship between the variables, suggesting the complementarity of the indicators of self-rated health analyzed. Multiple fit values showed that demographic variables age (.61) and gender (.56) were the variables with the best discriminatory power. Graphically, two groups of related variables were displayed. A non-linear analysis better explains the relationships between the variables analyzed, showing that age and gender have a high level of discriminatory power for life satisfaction and self-rated health, suggesting a role as a moderator in the relationship between health and well-being variables.

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“…Furthermore, higher HL has been associated with better self-rated health [13,14]. There are clear public health issues involved in understanding how differences in self-rated health operate, as either a subjective indicator of general health, or as a robust measure of it [15,16]. Self-rated health has been linked to a number of phenomena, including mortality and morbidity, functional ability, and physical and mental symptoms [17].…”

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A Comparative Study on Adolescents’ Health Literacy in Europe: Findings from the HBSC Study

Paakkari

Torppa

Mazur

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IJERPH

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(1) Background: There is a need for studies on population-level health literacy (HL) to identify the current state of HL within and between countries. We report comparative findings from 10 European countries (Austria, Belgium (Fl), Czechia, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Macedonia, Poland, and Slovakia) on adolescents’ HL and its associations with gender, family affluence (FAS), and self-rated health (SRH). (2) Methods: Representative data (N = 14,590; age 15) were drawn from the HBSC (Health Behavior in School-Aged Children) study. The associations between HL, gender, FAS, and SRH were examined via path models. (3) Results: The countries exhibited differences in HL means and in the range of scores within countries. Positive associations were found between FAS and HL, and between HL and SRH in each country. Gender was associated with differences in HL in only three countries. HL acted as a mediator between gender and SRH in four countries, and between FAS and SRH in each country. (4) Conclusions: The findings confirm that there are differences in HL levels within and between European countries, and that HL does contribute to differences in SRH. HL should be taken into account when devising evidence-informed policies and interventions to promote the health of adolescents.

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Variability in self-rated health trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood by demographic factors

Cited by 23 publications

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Maternal Educational Attainment at Birth Promotes Future Self-Rated Health of White but Not Black Youth: A 15-Year Cohort of a National Sample

Maternal Educational Attainment at Birth Promotes Future Self-Rated Health of White but Not Black Youth: A 15-Year Cohort of a National Sample

Life Satisfaction and Self-rated Health in Adolescents: The Relationships between them and the Role of Gender and Age

A Comparative Study on Adolescents’ Health Literacy in Europe: Findings from the HBSC Study

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