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Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES: It has been estimated that over 50% of the premature deaths occurring in Western countries can be attributed to causes rooted in lifestyle. In turn, leading a healthy lifestyle has also been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors. Today, it is known that these differ among...

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Autores principales: Patrão, Ana Luísa, Almeida, Maria da Conceição, Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim, Chor, Dora, Aquino, Estela M. L.
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015705
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author Patrão, Ana Luísa
Almeida, Maria da Conceição
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
Chor, Dora
Aquino, Estela M. L.
author_facet Patrão, Ana Luísa
Almeida, Maria da Conceição
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
Chor, Dora
Aquino, Estela M. L.
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description OBJECTIVES: It has been estimated that over 50% of the premature deaths occurring in Western countries can be attributed to causes rooted in lifestyle. In turn, leading a healthy lifestyle has also been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors. Today, it is known that these differ among men and women. The present article aimed to identify, from a gender-based perspective, the psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyles in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort, the largest study concerning adult health conducted in Latin America to date. DESIGN: This cross-sectional study was conducted using ELSA-Brasil baseline data, collected between 2008 and 2010. SETTING: Six Brazilian public higher education and research institutions. PARTICIPANTS: The ELSA-Brasil cohort consists of approximately 15 000 employees (8218 women and 6887 men), both currently working and retired. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The lifestyle indicator was constructed by summing the scores attributed to four different behaviours. RESULTS: The women of the ELSA-Brasil cohort have healthier lifestyles than men. In women, strong associations were found between a healthy lifestyle and age 60 years or older, Asian race and university level of education or higher. In men, being 60 years or older, of Asian or Caucasian race, having a high-school equivalent level of education or higher, being retired, having a housekeeper, having a good or very good self-perception of health and being satisfied with body image were the psychosocial factors associated with leading a healthy lifestyle. CONCLUSIONS: The factors that influenced healthy lifestyles were found to differ among men and women, a fact that must be addressed when developing programmes designed to promote health.
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spelling pubmed-57241522017-12-19 Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study Patrão, Ana Luísa Almeida, Maria da Conceição Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim Chor, Dora Aquino, Estela M. L. BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: It has been estimated that over 50% of the premature deaths occurring in Western countries can be attributed to causes rooted in lifestyle. In turn, leading a healthy lifestyle has also been associated with a wide range of psychosocial factors. Today, it is known that these differ among men and women. The present article aimed to identify, from a gender-based perspective, the psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyles in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort, the largest study concerning adult health conducted in Latin America to date. DESIGN: This cross-sectional study was conducted using ELSA-Brasil baseline data, collected between 2008 and 2010. SETTING: Six Brazilian public higher education and research institutions. PARTICIPANTS: The ELSA-Brasil cohort consists of approximately 15 000 employees (8218 women and 6887 men), both currently working and retired. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The lifestyle indicator was constructed by summing the scores attributed to four different behaviours. RESULTS: The women of the ELSA-Brasil cohort have healthier lifestyles than men. In women, strong associations were found between a healthy lifestyle and age 60 years or older, Asian race and university level of education or higher. In men, being 60 years or older, of Asian or Caucasian race, having a high-school equivalent level of education or higher, being retired, having a housekeeper, having a good or very good self-perception of health and being satisfied with body image were the psychosocial factors associated with leading a healthy lifestyle. CONCLUSIONS: The factors that influenced healthy lifestyles were found to differ among men and women, a fact that must be addressed when developing programmes designed to promote health. BMJ Publishing Group 2017-08-28 /pmc/articles/PMC5724152/ /pubmed/28851775 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015705 Text en © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2017. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
spellingShingle Public Health
Patrão, Ana Luísa
Almeida, Maria da Conceição
Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim
Chor, Dora
Aquino, Estela M. L.
Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title_full Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title_short Gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
title_sort gender and psychosocial factors associated with healthy lifestyle in the brazilian longitudinal study of adult health (elsa-brasil) cohort: a cross-sectional study
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28851775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-015705
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