What Are the Predictors of Self-Assessed Health in Lithuanian Health Professionals?
Autor: | Loreta Strumylaitė, Kristina Žalnieraitienė, Irena Misevičienė, Birutė Pajarskienė |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male Self-Assessment medicine.medical_specialty Cross-sectional study Health Status Nurses Logistic regression Health Services Accessibility Occupational safety and health Patient safety Physicians Surveys and Questionnaires Health care Humans Medicine Response rate (survey) 613.6 [udc] business.industry Lithuania General Medicine Odds ratio Middle Aged Confidence interval self-assessed health self-reported disease risk factors health professionals cross-sectional survey Family medicine Female business Health personnel Health status Self-assessment Risk factors Occupational health |
Zdroj: | Medicina, Kaunas : Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas, 2013, t. 49, Nr. 1, p. 23-28 Medicina; Volume 49; Issue 1; Pages: 5 |
ISSN: | 1648-9144 1010-660X |
DOI: | 10.3390/medicina49010005 |
Popis: | Background and Objective. Scientific evidence indicates that patient safety and access to health care is linked to the well-being of health professionals. The self-assessed health status has been widely used as a health measure in different surveys. The aim of this study was to examine and determine the factors related to the self-assessed health status of health professionals. Material and Methods. The cross-sectional questionnaire surveys of nurses and physicians were carried out in randomly selected hospitals. A total of 1025 health professionals (739 nurses and 286 physicians) from 3 hospitals of different size located in 1 geographical region of Lithuania participated in the survey. The response rate among the nurses and the physicians was 89.2% and 52.5%, respectively. The overall response rate was 74.7%. The data on self-assessed health, demographic factors, anthropometric data, blood pressure, cholesterol level in blood, personal history of diseases, smoking, and alcohol consumption were gathered with the help of the questionnaire. Results. About two-thirds (64.1%) of the health professionals reported good or quite good health, and only 1.5% of the respondents reported quite poor or poor health. Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed that the SAH status of health professionals was dependent on age (odds ratio [OR], 1.03; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02–1.05 [Model 1]; OR, 1.04; 95% CI, 1.02–1.06 [Model 2]), diseases (OR, 7.32; 95%, 5.18–10.35), heart diseases (OR, 12.09; 95% CI, 2.9–50.35), hypertension (OR, 2.53; 95% CI, 1.55–4.14), cancer (OR, 6.19; 95% CI, 1.27–30.13), gastrointestinal (OR, 3.54; 95% CI, 1.59–7.86) and musculoskeletal diseases (OR, 3.21; 95% CI, 1.71–6.02), smoking (OR, 2.1; 95% CI, 1.28–3.45 [Model 1]; OR, 2.00; 95% CI, 1.26–3.16 [Model 2]), and occupation (OR, 1.47; 95% CI, 1.04–2.07 [ Model 1]; OR, 1.54; 95% CI, 1.11–2.16 [Model 2]). Conclusions. Diseases are the main predictors of self-assessed health in health professionals. Advancing age and smoking also contribute to poorer self-assessed health. |
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