Economic stress and perceived health among adolescents in Sweden
Economic stress and perceived health among adolescents in Sweden
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DOI：
10.1016/s1054-139x(97)00168-7
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发表时间：
1998-03-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Hagquist, CEI
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作者：
Hagquist, CEI
目的：描述瑞典青少年的经济压力和自感健康之间的联系。方法：本研究主要基于1995年收集的2400多名九年级青少年的数据。数据由自填式问卷收集。运用描述性统计和多项式回归分析了家庭经济压力与青少年健康知觉之间的关系。结果：家庭经济方面的担忧与青少年的健康知觉密切相关，但他们自身相对的经济贫困也起着重要作用。那些经常或经常担心家庭财务状况的人比那些很少或从未经历过这种担心的人更容易感觉到健康状况不佳。经济压力和感知健康之间的关系也比其他类型的压力和感知健康之间的关系更强。此外，在过去的一个月里，经常负担不起各种娱乐活动的青少年比其他人表现出更大程度的自感健康不良。结论：瑞典年轻人的经济压力正在成为自感健康的重要决定因素。鉴于瑞典福利制度的恶化，在研究和公共卫生方面都应高度重视年轻人的经济压力问题。(C)青少年医学学会，1998年。
Purpose: To describe the link between economic stress and perceived health among Swedish adolescents.Methods: The study is based mainly on data collected during 1995 from over 2400 adolescents in ninth grade. Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire. The relationship between economic stress and perceived health was analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as multinomial legit.Results: Worry about family finances is strongly linked to the adolescents' perceived health, though their own relative economic deprivation also plays a significant part. The occurrence of perceived poor health is much greater among those who are frequently or constantly worried about their family's finances than among those who seldom or never experience such worry. The relationship between economic stress and perceived health is also stronger than the relationships between other types of stress and perceived health. In addition, those adolescents who, during the last month, have often been unable to afford various recreational activities, exhibit a greater degree of perceived poor health than others.Conclusions: Economic stress among young people in Sweden is emerging as an important determinant of perceived health. In view of the deterioration of the Swedish welfare system, great attention should be paid to the question of economic stress among young people, in terms of both research and public health. (C) Society for Adolescent Medicine, 1998.