Factors associated with the subjective health complaints among adolescents: Results from the ASSO Project
| Autor: | Angelo Iovane, Garden Tabacchi, Giuseppe Napoli, Giuseppe Messina, Maria Di Pasquale, Manuel Gómez-López, Antonino Bianco, Anna Rita Filippi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Population Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Disease Bivariate analysis Smoking initiation 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology Risk behaviors Malaise 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Educación Física y Deportiva Medicine Alcohol consumption 030212 general & internal medicine lcsh:Sports medicine education media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Confounding Feeling Risk behaviours Christian ministry medicine.symptom business lcsh:RC1200-1245 Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Human Sport and Exercise, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 443-455 (2019) RUA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante Universidad de Alicante (UA) |
| ISSN: | 1988-5202 |
| Popis: | Objectives. Subjective health complaints (e.g. headache and feeling low) are common among adolescents. The objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with the subjective health of adolescents from a population-based point of view. Material and methods. A sample of 712 students was recruited within the web-based Project ASSO (Adolescents and Surveillance System for the Obesity prevention), funded by the Italian Ministry of Health and piloted in Palermo. A 0-100 quantitative score (arbitrarily named "psychosomatic malaise index") based on the frequency of occurrence of seven subjective health complaints was created and used as outcome; socio-demographic characteristics, medical items and lifestyle data were collected as potential explanatory variables. Associations were evaluated through a bivariate analysis first, and a multiple linear regression model afterwards by correcting for confounders. Results. The psychosomatic malaise index averaged 49.0 within the girls and 36.8 within the boys. After adjustment, the psychosomatic malaise index was confirmed to be significantly higher in the females, subjects with a diagnosed disease, smokers and alcohol consumers. Conclusions. Beyond the female gender, incorrect lifestyles such smoking and drinking alcohol may play an important role in the quality of life of adolescents, and thus preventive actions by the public health services should be addressed mainly to avoid such habits in young populations. The work has been performed within the Adolescents and Surveillance System for the Obesity prevention (ASSO) Project (code GR-2008-1140742, CUP I85J10000500001), a project funded by the Italian Ministry of Health. |
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