Self-perceived health and psychological well-being among Serbian schoolchildren and adolescents: data from National Health Survey

• Authors: Aleksandra Jovic-Vranes , Janko Jankovic , Vladimir Vasic , Slavenka Jankovic
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose was to determinate possible factors associated with psychosocial health through self-perceived health and psychological well-being among Serbian schoolchildren and adolescents. A cross-sectional study. The study is based on the 2006 National Health Survey of the population of Serbia. A total of 2,721 schoolchildren and adolescents were included. Face-to-face questionnaire and self-administered questionnaire were used for collection of data. For the assessment of psychosocial health we created two indicators (varibles): Self perceived health (using the categorical principal components), and Psychological well-being (using reliability analisys). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coeficient and categorical regression. Self-perceived health was found to have a positive association with gender, age, objective and subjective socioeconomic status. Psychological well-being was associated with gender, age, social support, objective and subjective socioeconomic status. Age group was strongly associated with self-perceived health and psychological well-being. Older respondents and female perceived their health to be better than others. Male and respondents in age group 7–11 had higher levels of psychological well-being. Results show that both demographic and socioeconomic variables have an important influence on schoolchildren and adolescent self-perceived health and psychological well-being.

Keywords

EN

Self-perceived health; Psychological well-being; Schoolchildren; Adolescents; Serbia

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Open Medicine
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 400-406

Dates

published

1 - 8 - 2011

online

1 - 6 - 2011

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Jovic-Vranes

• Institute of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

author

Janko Jankovic

• Institute of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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Vladimir Vasic

• Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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Slavenka Jankovic

• Institute of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s11536-011-0035-z