Better health reports when the grass is greener on your side of the fence? A cross-sectional study in older persons

OBJECTIVE: To study whether the luxury goods make older people feel in better health and whether this association is similar in higher and lower social classes. METHODS: SMILE consists of a Dutch general population consisting of 2.637 men and women aged 60 years and older in 2007. The SF-36 was used...

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Autores principales: Bosma, Hans, Groffen, Daniëlle, van den Akker, Marjan, Kempen, Gertrudis I. J. M., van Eijk, Jacques Th. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 2010
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20697768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-010-0176-x
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To study whether the luxury goods make older people feel in better health and whether this association is similar in higher and lower social classes. METHODS: SMILE consists of a Dutch general population consisting of 2.637 men and women aged 60 years and older in 2007. The SF-36 was used to measure health-related functioning. RESULTS: In the lower social class, having many luxury goods was related to feeling in better physical (OR 2.06, 95% CI 1.39–3.07) and mental health (OR 1.79, 95% CI 1.21–2.64), but not in the higher social class. CONCLUSIONS: There might be a health benefit of keeping up appearances, snobbism, and “conspicuous consumption” in older people from lower social classes.

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