INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictors of self-rated health status for Texas adults using the current 2003 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data. Self-rated health is generally accepted as a valid measure of health status in population studies, and understanding its correlates may help public health professionals prioritize health-promotion and diseas...

BACKGROUND In adult quality of life (QOL) research, the QOL construct appears to differ from self-rated health status. Although increased QOL continues to be recognized as an important outcome in health promotion and medical intervention, little research has attempted to explore adolescent perceptual differences between self-rated health and QOL. METHODS Correlational analyses were performed ...

BACKGROUND The associations between socioeconomic status (SES), physical and psychosocial workload and health are well documented. According to The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS), learned response outcome expectancies (coping, helplessness, and hopelessness) are also important contributors to health. This is in part as independent factors for health, but coping may also function a...

BACKGROUND Depression is common among persons with diabetes and associated with adverse health outcomes. To date, little is known about the causal mechanisms that lead to depression in diabetes. The aim of the present study was to examine to which extent functional and self-rated health mediate the association between physical health and depressive symptoms in diabetes. METHODS Data of n = 32...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the validity of self-rated health across different populations of older adults, when compared to the Short Physical Performance Battery. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of the International Mobility in Aging Study. SETTING Five locations: Saint-Hyacinthe and Kingston (Canada), Tirana (Albania), Manizales (Colombia), and Natal (Brazil). PARTIC...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of religion and spirituality on social support, psychological functioning, and physical health in medically ill hospitalized older adults. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Duke University Medical Center. PARTICIPANTS A research nurse interviewed 838 consecutively admitted patients aged 50 and older to a general medical service. MEASUREMENTS Measure...

Limited research has examined the ways in which changes in self-rated health experienced by aging spouses affect depressive symptoms of both members of the dyad. Longitudinal data from 315 older couples in which one partner had end-stage renal disease were analyzed using multilevel modeling. Results indicate that for both patients and spouses, own mean self-rated health was associated with own ...

This article describes change and stability in self-rated health after a major medical event. Using a prospective design, it examines the ability of premorbid and post-illness health perceptions to predict physical disability independently of medical, psychosocial, and behavioral variables. Participants (N=254) were a subsample of the New Haven cohort of the Established Populations for Epidemio...

OBJECTIVE We examined the role of gender, family, lifestyle and psychological factors in self-rated health. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING A total of 970 randomly selected students from 11 secondary schools in Lima and Callao, Peru, participated in 2014. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Self-rated health was measured with a single item: 'In general, how would you rate your health?' Responses w...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between self-rated health, adjusted for standard risk factors, and myocardial infarction. DESIGN Population-based prospective cohort study. SETTING Enrolment took place between 1990 and 2004 in Västerbotten County, Sweden PARTICIPANTS Every year, persons in the total population, aged 40, 50 or 60 were invited. Participation rate was 60%. The cohor...