objectives: this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of aggressive behaviors, life satisfaction (ls) and self- rated health (srh) and counseling with family members in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6-18 years, wereselected by cluster and stratified multi-stage sampling method fr...

PURPOSE The aims of this study were to examine differences between older men and women: (a) in the ability of self-rated health to predict mortality, (b) in the effect of different follow-up periods on the self-rated health mortality relationship, and (c) in the relative importance of self-rated health and self-rated change in health in predicting mortality. DESIGN AND METHODS By using data f...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study is to expand knowledge about predictors of the self-rated health and mental health in fifty-year-old women. The study exploring links between self-rated mental/health and optimism, self-esteem, acceptance of the changes in physical look and some sociodemographic factors. METHODS Participants in this study were 209 women aged 50 to 59. A single-items measures of...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health is a one-point measure commonly used for recognising subjectively perceived health and covering a wide range of individual's health aspects. OBJECTIVE The aim of our study was to examine the extent to which self-rated health reflects the differences due to demographic characteristics, physical, psychical and social well-being, health disorders, occurrence of chron...

BACKGROUND The high educated live longer and healthier lives when compared to the low educated. Physical fitness as a health indicator reflects the level of physical activity along with other health-influencing factors such as obesity, smoking, chronic diseases and individual training effects. Studies support that self-rated physical fitness correlates with objectively measured physical fitness...

Background: Nursing students face tremendous stressors during their student life that lead to physical and mental health problems and poor academic performance. But, evidence relating to stress, anxiety and depression in this population in Sri Lanka is limited. Objective: The aim of this study was to examine depression, anxiety and stress and associated factors among undergraduate nursing stude...

BACKGROUND Older adults spend little time outdoors and many are physically inactive. The relationship between outdoor physical activity and self rated health has not been studied in older adults. This paper aimed to assess the relation of location of physical activity to self rated health and physical activity minutes. This was an observational study of ambulatory adults 66 years and older cond...

OBJECTIVE To investigate prevalence of poor self-rated health and its association with individual and household-level characteristics among adults and elderly in Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional study with Brazilian National Household Sample Survey 2008 (n=257 816). Crude and multilevel-adjusted Poisson regression models were fitted. RESULTS After adjusted analysis, poor self-r...