BACKGROUND The single-item question of self-assessed health has consistently been reported to be associated with mortality, even after controlling for a wide range of health measurements and known risk factors for mortality. It has been suggested that this association is due to psychosocial factors which are both related to self-assessed health and to mortality. We tested this hypothesis. MET...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between test anxiety with mental health and implicit-explicit self esteem. the comparison of these constructs between talented and normal schools students was assessed as well.  112 talented school male students and 96 normal school male students from khorasan razavi were selected by convenience sampling and completed the package of inst...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess potential differences in the predictive ability of self-assessed health for mortality between educational groups, and to find explanations for any of these educational differences. METHODS We used data from the longitudinal GLOBE study, with a 13-year mortality follow-up. Analyses were performed for people aged between 25-74 years at baseline...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess the extent to which poorer self assessed health in men in whom an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is detected at screening is a consequence or a predictor of screening outcome. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Community based screening. PARTICIPANTS 23 654 men who attended for AAA screening as part of the UK multicentre aneurysm screening study completed a meas...

BACKGROUND In recent years, interest in the study of inequalities in health has not stopped at quantifying their magnitude; explaining the sources of inequalities has also become of great importance. This paper measures socioeconomic inequalities in self-reported morbidity and self-assessed health in Thailand, and the contributions of different population subgroups to those inequalities. METH...