| Socio-demographic factors, behaviour and personality: associations with psychological distress. | |
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PMID: 21450585 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Background: Anxiety, psychological distress and personality may not be independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease; however they may contribute via their relationship with unhealthy lifestyle behaviours. This study aimed to examine the association between psychological distress, risk behaviours and patient demographic characteristics in a sample of general practice patients aged 40-65 years with at least one risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Design: Cross-sectional analytic study. Methods: Patients, randomly selected from general practice records, completed a questionnaire about their behavioural risk factors and psychological health as part of a cluster randomized controlled trial of a general practice based intervention to prevent chronic vascular disease. The Kessler Psychological Distress Score (K10) was the main outcome measure for the multilevel, multivariate analysis. Results: Single-level bi-variate analysis demonstrated a significant association between higher K10 and middle age (p = 0.001), high neuroticism (p = 0), current smoking (p = 0), physical inactivity (p = 0.003) and low fruit and vegetable consumption (p = 0.008). Socioeconomic (SES) indicators of deprivation (employment and accommodation status) were also significantly associated with higher K10 (p = 0). No individual behavioural risk factor was associated with K10 on multilevel multivariate analysis; however indicators of low SES remained significant (p < 0.001). Conclusions: When all factors were considered, psychological distress was not associated with behavioural risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Other underlying factors, such as personality type and socioeconomic status, may be associated with both the behaviours and the distress. |
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Suzanne Helen McKenzie; Upali W Jayasinghe; Mahnaz Fanaian; Megan Passey; David Lyle; Gawaine Powell Davies; Mark Ford Harris |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-21 |
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Title: European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology Volume: - ISSN: 1741-8275 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-3-31 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101192000 Medline TA: Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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University of New South Wales, Australia and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. |
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