Abstract
Self-rated health is a major health indicator and has been widely used in epidemiologic surveys. Current study analyzes the factors associated to regular and negative self-rated health in Brazilian college students. Current investigation is a segment of the 2010 MONISA study carried out in a Brazilian public university with 5,461 students. Estimated sample comprised 1,232 university students and results showed self-rated regular and negative health. Multinomial logistic regression estimated Odds Ratio (OR). The factors associated to regular health self-evaluation negative assessment of relationship with professors (OR: 1.85; CI95%: 1.20-2.87); inactivity in leisure (OR: 2.34; CI95%: 1.73-3.16); insufficient consumption of vegetables; almost daily consumption of soft drinks; assessment of intermediate and negative stress (OR: 3.34; CI95%: 2.11-5.28). Students inactive in leisure (OR: 2.37; 95%CI: 1.09-5.13), students with self-evaluated negative stress (OR: 10.1; 95%CI: 3.23-31.8) and obese students (OR: 4.52; 95%CI: 1.36-15.0) were associated to the negative health self-assessment. It has been verified that health behavior is rather associated to the regular self-assessment of health, whereas perceptive and biological indicators were more associated to negative health self-assessment.
Highlights
Health self-assessment is a measure of easy application, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO, 1996), and has been used in Brazilians and international epidemiologic surveys
50.9% reported that they did not practice any physical activities during leisure time
Factors related to regular self-assessment of health in university students in current analysis were those related to negative relationships with professors, lack of physical activities during leisure time, consumption of vegetables up to four days a week and consumption of soft drinks on five or more days of the week
Summary
Health self-assessment is a measure of easy application, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO, 1996), and has been used in Brazilians and international epidemiologic surveys A regular or negative self-assessment of health is a good indicator of morbidities and mortality causes (BOPP et al, 2012) and has a significant predictive power for mortality (LIMA-COSTA et al, 2012). High prevalence of negative self-assessment of health may be observed among adults (BRASIL, 2012) and workers of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil (NAHAS, 2009)
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