Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers
BACKGROUND: To determine a) proportions of behavior related health risk factors among job-seekers and b) to what extend these are related to self-rated health. METHODS: Over 12 months, job-seekers were recruited at three job-agencies in northeastern Germany. Among all individuals eligible for study...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-659 |
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author | Freyer-Adam, Jennis Gaertner, Beate Tobschall, Stefanie John, Ulrich |
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description | BACKGROUND: To determine a) proportions of behavior related health risk factors among job-seekers and b) to what extend these are related to self-rated health. METHODS: Over 12 months, job-seekers were recruited at three job-agencies in northeastern Germany. Among all individuals eligible for study inclusion, 7,906 (79.8%) provided information on smoking, risky drinking, overweight/obesity (body mass index), fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity, illicit drug use, and self-rated health. Proportions and 95% confidence intervals stratified by gender, age and duration of unemployment were calculated. Multivariate logistic regression analyses predicting self-rated health were conducted. RESULTS: The proportions of each health-risk factor were high, and 52.4% of the sample (53.4% male, 33.5 years mean age) had 3 or more health risk factors. Mostly, the proportions were particularly high among men and long-term unemployed individuals; e.g. 84.8% of the 18-24 year old long-term unemployed men were current smokers. Proportions of substance use related health risk factors were highest among the 18-24 year olds (e.g. risky drinking 28.7%), and proportions of health risk factors related to nutrition and physical inactivity were highest among the 40-64 year olds (e.g. overweight/obesity 65.4%). Depending on gender, all health risk factors and having 3 or more health risk factors were associated with lower self-rated health; odd ratios ranged between 1.2 for smoking (95% CI: 1.0-1.3) and 1.7 for overweight and physical inactivity (95% CI: 1.5-1.9). CONCLUSIONS: Prevention efforts to reduce health risk factors and to increase health among job-seekers are needed, and job agencies appear a feasible setting for their implementation. |
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spelling | pubmed-32239192011-11-26 Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers Freyer-Adam, Jennis Gaertner, Beate Tobschall, Stefanie John, Ulrich BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: To determine a) proportions of behavior related health risk factors among job-seekers and b) to what extend these are related to self-rated health. METHODS: Over 12 months, job-seekers were recruited at three job-agencies in northeastern Germany. Among all individuals eligible for study inclusion, 7,906 (79.8%) provided information on smoking, risky drinking, overweight/obesity (body mass index), fruit and vegetable intake, physical inactivity, illicit drug use, and self-rated health. Proportions and 95% confidence intervals stratified by gender, age and duration of unemployment were calculated. Multivariate logistic regression analyses predicting self-rated health were conducted. RESULTS: The proportions of each health-risk factor were high, and 52.4% of the sample (53.4% male, 33.5 years mean age) had 3 or more health risk factors. Mostly, the proportions were particularly high among men and long-term unemployed individuals; e.g. 84.8% of the 18-24 year old long-term unemployed men were current smokers. Proportions of substance use related health risk factors were highest among the 18-24 year olds (e.g. risky drinking 28.7%), and proportions of health risk factors related to nutrition and physical inactivity were highest among the 40-64 year olds (e.g. overweight/obesity 65.4%). Depending on gender, all health risk factors and having 3 or more health risk factors were associated with lower self-rated health; odd ratios ranged between 1.2 for smoking (95% CI: 1.0-1.3) and 1.7 for overweight and physical inactivity (95% CI: 1.5-1.9). CONCLUSIONS: Prevention efforts to reduce health risk factors and to increase health among job-seekers are needed, and job agencies appear a feasible setting for their implementation. BioMed Central 2011-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3223919/ /pubmed/21854611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-659 Text en Copyright ©2011 Freyer-Adam et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Freyer-Adam, Jennis Gaertner, Beate Tobschall, Stefanie John, Ulrich Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title | Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title_full | Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title_fullStr | Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title_full_unstemmed | Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title_short | Health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
title_sort | health risk factors and self-rated health among job-seekers |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3223919/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-659 |
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