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Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study

OBJECTIVE: Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social determinants of health and health inequalities that persist in developed countries despite general improvements in health outcomes across populations. Previous research has investigated what effect crowded livin...

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Autores principales: Mangrio, Elisabeth, Zdravkovic, Slobodan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3718-6
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description OBJECTIVE: Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social determinants of health and health inequalities that persist in developed countries despite general improvements in health outcomes across populations. Previous research has investigated what effect crowded living conditions have on mental health and concluded that women living in crowded conditions were more likely to suffer from depression. In contrast, men living in the same conditions responded with withdrawal or aggression. To the best of our knowledge, only a few studies have examined the association between recently-arrived migrants living in crowded conditions and poor mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between crowded living conditions among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden and mental ill-health. The result is based on 681 migrants who completed and returned questionnaires in 2015–2016. RESULTS: The analyses, independent of gender, resulted in a significant unadjusted odds ratio of 1.46 (95% CI 1.05–2.03); even after adjustments were made, the association remained significant OR 1.47 (1.05–2.07). When adding stability in housing into the adjustment-model, the OR did not remain significant OR 1.40 (0.99–1.99), P-value 0.061.
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spelling pubmed-61092872018-08-29 Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study Mangrio, Elisabeth Zdravkovic, Slobodan BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Housing and neighbourhood conditions are widely acknowledged important social determinants of health and health inequalities that persist in developed countries despite general improvements in health outcomes across populations. Previous research has investigated what effect crowded living conditions have on mental health and concluded that women living in crowded conditions were more likely to suffer from depression. In contrast, men living in the same conditions responded with withdrawal or aggression. To the best of our knowledge, only a few studies have examined the association between recently-arrived migrants living in crowded conditions and poor mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between crowded living conditions among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden and mental ill-health. The result is based on 681 migrants who completed and returned questionnaires in 2015–2016. RESULTS: The analyses, independent of gender, resulted in a significant unadjusted odds ratio of 1.46 (95% CI 1.05–2.03); even after adjustments were made, the association remained significant OR 1.47 (1.05–2.07). When adding stability in housing into the adjustment-model, the OR did not remain significant OR 1.40 (0.99–1.99), P-value 0.061. BioMed Central 2018-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6109287/ /pubmed/30143050 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3718-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title_full Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title_fullStr Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title_full_unstemmed Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title_short Crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in Sweden: a quantitative study
title_sort crowded living and its association with mental ill-health among recently-arrived migrants in sweden: a quantitative study
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30143050
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3718-6
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