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
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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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author Bosma, Hans
Groffen, Daniëlle
van den Akker, Marjan
Kempen, Gertrudis I. J. M.
van Eijk, Jacques Th. M.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-31443652011-09-08 Better health reports when the grass is greener on your side of the fence? A cross-sectional study in older persons Bosma, Hans Groffen, Daniëlle van den Akker, Marjan Kempen, Gertrudis I. J. M. van Eijk, Jacques Th. M. Int J Public Health Brief Report 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. SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 2010-08-10 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3144365/ /pubmed/20697768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00038-010-0176-x Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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title_short Better health reports when the grass is greener on your side of the fence? A cross-sectional study in older persons
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url 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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