The impact of ethnicity and self-reported health on psychological well-being: A comparative study of Kurdish-born and Swedish-born people

Autor:	Marina Taloyan, Ahmad Al-Windi, Jan Sundquist
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Adult Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Self Disclosure Turkey Gastrointestinal Diseases Cross-sectional study Health Status media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Ethnic group Emigrants and Immigrants Iran Logistic regression Age Distribution Adaptation Psychological Ethnicity Odds Ratio medicine Humans Sex Distribution Psychiatry media_common Sweden business.industry Mental Disorders Odds ratio Middle Aged Health Surveys Psychophysiologic Disorders Mental health Psychiatry and Mental health Cross-Sectional Studies Mental Health Socioeconomic Factors Psychological well-being Self-disclosure Female business Stress Psychological
Zdroj:	Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 62:392-398
ISSN:	1502-4725 0803-9488
DOI:	10.1080/08039480801984263
Popis:	Although immigrants generally have poorer health and higher psychological distress than the native population, information on Kurdish immigrants' psychological well-being is limited. The aims of the study were to examine the association between ethnicity and poor psychological well-being, and to assess the relationships between socio-demographic characteristics, self-reported health, somatic pain, gastrointestinal complaints and poor psychological well-being.Immigrants with self-reported Kurdish ethnicity (men, n=111; women, n=86) in Sweden from the national sample of immigrants aged 27-60 and 1407 Swedes (1996) were studied. Unconditional logistic regression was performed using the Stata Software program. In the logistic model adjusted for age, sex, employment and self-reported health, the odds ratio for Kurdish-born subjects for having poor psychological well-being is twice as high as for Swedish-born subjects. Subjects with poor self-reported health had more than a threefold higher odds ratio for having poor psychological well-being compared with those with good self-reported health. Furthermore, being female, having somatic pain and recurrent gastrointestinal complaints regardless of ethnicity increased the odds for having poor psychological well-being. Being Kurdish-born and/or reporting poor health in addition to age, female gender, somatic pain and recurrent gastrointestinal complaints is significantly and independently related to poor psychological well-being even when adjusted for all confounders.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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