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Individual and contextual determinants of self-reported poor psychological health: A population-based multilevel analysis in southern Sweden.

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Summary, in English

Objective: To investigate the influence of contextual and individual factors on self-reported psychological health. Design/setting/participants/measurements: The 2000 public health survey in Scania is a cross-sectional postal questionnaire study with a 59% participation rate. A total of 13,715 persons aged 18-80 answered the questionnaire. A multilevel logistic regression model, with individuals at the first level and municipalities/city quarters at the second, was performed. The effect (intra-class correlation, cross-level modification, and odds ratios) of individual and municipality/city quarter factors on self-reported psychological health was analysed. Results: The crude variance between municipalities/city quarters was small but significant. It was particularly affected and lowered by individual civil status, country of origin, economic stress, and social participation. The inclusion of all individual factors age, sex, civil status, country of origin, education, economic stress, and social participation lowered the between municipality variance to not-significant levels, which is the reason why no contextual variables were included in the calculations. Conclusions: The results of this study suggest that poor self-reported psychological health is affected mainly by individual characteristics of the population and not by contextual factors at the municipality/city quarter level.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

397-405

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volume

34

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology

Keywords

  • GHQ12
  • social participation
  • Economic stress
  • social capital
  • self-reported psychological health

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Epidemiology
  • Social Medicine and Global Health

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-1905