A multi-team case-control study on the effects of psychosocial stress to overall health.
- Author:
Jiayuan LI
1
;
Rongsheng LUAN
;
Chaorun XUE
;
You ZHANG
;
Jiayan GAO
;
Dingyu YANG
;
Xiaohui LUO
;
Li DENG
;
Donglei LIU
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Analysis of Variance; Case-Control Studies; Cohort Studies; Educational Status; Health Status; Humans; Marital Status; Social Class; Stress, Psychological; psychology
- From: Chinese Journal of Epidemiology 2002;23(1):36-39
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo explore the quantitative relationship between the intensity of psychosocial stress and the degree of overall health damages.
METHODSA multi-group case-control study was designed and implemented. The cases included two groups of out-patients (177) and in-patients (214) in a hospital in Jianyang city, and controls (587) were from the follow-up cohort in the same city. Three groups were studied on the following contents: general demographic characteristics, psychosocial factors and the degree of health damages including mental, physical, and social status. Major statistical analyses were as follows: ranks test, ANOVA, cluster analysis, multinomial logistic regression and ordered-logit regression.
RESULTSOrdered-logit regression model showed that the odds ratio of negative life-events on degree of health damages was 1.335 (P < 0.01). This result showed that there was a positive dose-effect relationship between the negative life-events score and overall health damages. The utility of social support to overall health had protective effect (OR = 0.513).
CONCLUSIONNegative life-events were the major risk factors to overall health, and there was a dose-effect relationship between negative events and health damages. Function of social support played a protective factor for health.
