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Lack of Social Support and Its Role on Self-Perceived Health in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults. Another Aspect of Gender Inequality

Self-perceived health has been used as a good estimator of health status and receiving affection can be a determining factor for good self-perceived health. The aim of the present study was to assess whether lack of social support (measured through Duke scale, which ranges from 11 to 55) was associa...

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Autores principales: Wärnberg, Julia, Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón, Ajejas-Bazán, María Julia, Pérez-López, Jéssica, Benavente-Marín, Juan Carlos, Crespo-Oliva, Edelys, Castillo-Antúnez, Virginia, Fernández-Barceló, Olga, Valenzuela-Guerrero, Silvia, Silva-Soto, María Ángeles, Barón-López, F. Javier
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33916528
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10071502
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author Wärnberg, Julia
Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón
Ajejas-Bazán, María Julia
Pérez-López, Jéssica
Benavente-Marín, Juan Carlos
Crespo-Oliva, Edelys
Castillo-Antúnez, Virginia
Fernández-Barceló, Olga
Valenzuela-Guerrero, Silvia
Silva-Soto, María Ángeles
Barón-López, F. Javier
author_facet Wärnberg, Julia
Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón
Ajejas-Bazán, María Julia
Pérez-López, Jéssica
Benavente-Marín, Juan Carlos
Crespo-Oliva, Edelys
Castillo-Antúnez, Virginia
Fernández-Barceló, Olga
Valenzuela-Guerrero, Silvia
Silva-Soto, María Ángeles
Barón-López, F. Javier
author_sort Wärnberg, Julia
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description Self-perceived health has been used as a good estimator of health status and receiving affection can be a determining factor for good self-perceived health. The aim of the present study was to assess whether lack of social support (measured through Duke scale, which ranges from 11 to 55) was associated with poorer health status measured as self-perceived health, and whether that association was different between women and men. A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the 2017 Spanish National Health Survey. A descriptive study was performed, and logistic regression models were applied using self-perceived health as a dependent variable. Mean Duke score was 47.6 for men and 47.9 for women (p = 0.016). Moreover, 36.3% of women and 27.6% of men reported poor self-perceived health (p < 0.001). The multivariate analysis revealed that lower scores in Duke-UNC social support scale were associated with poorer health status. That association was higher in women than in men. Poor self-perceived health was also associated with low level of education and obesity, especially among women. There was gender inequality as regards health status associated with lack of social support. These results can help design prevention strategies to improve health.
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spelling pubmed-80384262021-04-12 Lack of Social Support and Its Role on Self-Perceived Health in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults. Another Aspect of Gender Inequality Wärnberg, Julia Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón Ajejas-Bazán, María Julia Pérez-López, Jéssica Benavente-Marín, Juan Carlos Crespo-Oliva, Edelys Castillo-Antúnez, Virginia Fernández-Barceló, Olga Valenzuela-Guerrero, Silvia Silva-Soto, María Ángeles Barón-López, F. Javier J Clin Med Article Self-perceived health has been used as a good estimator of health status and receiving affection can be a determining factor for good self-perceived health. The aim of the present study was to assess whether lack of social support (measured through Duke scale, which ranges from 11 to 55) was associated with poorer health status measured as self-perceived health, and whether that association was different between women and men. A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the 2017 Spanish National Health Survey. A descriptive study was performed, and logistic regression models were applied using self-perceived health as a dependent variable. Mean Duke score was 47.6 for men and 47.9 for women (p = 0.016). Moreover, 36.3% of women and 27.6% of men reported poor self-perceived health (p < 0.001). The multivariate analysis revealed that lower scores in Duke-UNC social support scale were associated with poorer health status. That association was higher in women than in men. Poor self-perceived health was also associated with low level of education and obesity, especially among women. There was gender inequality as regards health status associated with lack of social support. These results can help design prevention strategies to improve health. MDPI 2021-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8038426/ /pubmed/33916528 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10071502 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wärnberg, Julia
Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón
Ajejas-Bazán, María Julia
Pérez-López, Jéssica
Benavente-Marín, Juan Carlos
Crespo-Oliva, Edelys
Castillo-Antúnez, Virginia
Fernández-Barceló, Olga
Valenzuela-Guerrero, Silvia
Silva-Soto, María Ángeles
Barón-López, F. Javier
Lack of Social Support and Its Role on Self-Perceived Health in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults. Another Aspect of Gender Inequality
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title_short Lack of Social Support and Its Role on Self-Perceived Health in a Representative Sample of Spanish Adults. Another Aspect of Gender Inequality
title_sort lack of social support and its role on self-perceived health in a representative sample of spanish adults. another aspect of gender inequality
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8038426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33916528
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm10071502
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