How financial hardship is associated with the onset of mental health problems over time
| Autor: | Peter Butterworth, Liana S. Leach, Kim M. Kiely, Sarah C Olesen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Health (social science) Social Psychology Adolescent Epidemiology Population Poison control Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Young Adult Nursing Medicine Humans Early career education Poverty Aged National health Aged 80 and over education.field_of_study business.industry Mental Disorders Australia Health Status Disparities Middle Aged Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Mental Health Income Female business Dementia research |
| Zdroj: | Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology. 50(6) |
| ISSN: | 1433-9285 |
| Popis: | Poor mental health has been consistently linked with the experience of financial hardship and poverty. However, the temporal association between these factors must be clarified before hardship alleviation can be considered as an effective mental health promotion and prevention strategy. We examined whether the longitudinal associations between financial hardship and mental health problems are best explained by an individual's current or prior experience of hardship, or their underlying vulnerability.We analysed nine waves (years: 2001-2010) of nationally representative panel data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (n = 11,134). Two components of financial hardship (deprivation and cash-flow problems) and income poverty were coded into time-varying and time-invariant variables reflecting the contemporaneous experience of hardship (i.e., current), the prior experience of hardship (lagged/12 months), and any experience of hardship during the study period (vulnerability). Multilevel, mixed-effect logistic regression models tested the associations between these measures and mental health.Respondents who reported deprivation and cash-flow problems had greater risk of mental health problems than those who did not. Individuals vulnerable to hardship had greater risk of mental health problems, even at the times they did not report hardship. However, their risk of mental health problems was greater on occasions when they did experience hardship.The results are consistent with the argument that economic and social programmes that address and prevent hardship may promote community mental health. |
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