Correlation of social support and healthy lifestyle

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death accounting for 4 million deaths per year in Europe. Psychosocial factors explain at least 25-40% of the disease's prevalence beyond the well-known lifestyle factors. Isolation in adulthood is one of the main sources of chronic stress that raises the incidence of the disease. The low level of social support and social isolation are increasing the risk of depression and high blood pressure hence the incidence of cardiovascular diseases. Aim: Our aim was to observe the correlation between social isolation and health behaviour. Furthermore, we have adapted the earlier validated Multidimensional Social Support Scale to the domain of health. Method: The data from 507 persons were collected online in 2018. Multidimensional Social Support Scale adapted to health, self-rated health, subjective means, short version of Beck Depression, shortened version of WHO Wellbeing, and Perceived Stress Scales were recorded. Results: Factor analysis verified the scale construction of the original 3-subscale structure (Cronbach alpha values = 0.945, 0.950 and 0.905). According to the regression models, social support received from friends we have observed to have moderately positive correlation with intensive exercises (B = 0.205, beta = 0.096, p = 0.093). Logistic regression model revealed that health-connected social support does not correlate with smoking, only education variable was related with it strongly, statistically significantly (B = -1.284, OR = 0.277, p<0.001). Conclusion: Multidimensional Social Support Scale has satisfactory stability and consistency to measure health-related social support. Social support showed correlation with the measures of mental health (depression, stress-level, wellbeing), and moderate association with intense exercises. Orv Hetil. 2020; 161(4): 129-138.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:161

Enthalten in:

Orvosi hetilap - 161(2020), 4 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 129-138

Sprache:

Ungarisch

Weiterer Titel:

A társas támogatás és az egészséges életmód összefüggései

Beteiligte Personen:

Ocsovszky, Zsófia [VerfasserIn]
Rafael, Beatrix [VerfasserIn]
Martos, Tamás [VerfasserIn]
Csabai, Márta [VerfasserIn]
Bagyura, Zsolt [VerfasserIn]
Sallay, Viola [VerfasserIn]
Merkely, Béla [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiovascular disease
Dohányzás
Egészségmagatartás
Health-behavior
Journal Article
Smoking
Social support
Szív- és érrendszeri megbetegedés
Társas támogatás

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 23.01.2020

Date Revised 23.01.2020

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1556/650.2020.31625

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM30553680X