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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
1
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1998-2-27
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| pubmed:abstractText |
The associations between nine domain-specific measures of health (e.g., depressive symptoms, psychological distress, mental health, physical functioning, role functioning, social functioning, bodily pain, somatic symptoms, and chronic medical morbidity) and a single-item measure for perceived overall health were studied in an extensive community-based sample of elderly persons (n = 5279). The results showed that: (1) the discriminative power of perceived overall health compared to domain-specific measures of health was moderate to large only at the fair/poor end of the perceived overall health spectrum; (2) a single-item measure of perceived overall health did not cover domain-specific measurements of health since only 41.8% of the variance in perceived overall health was explained by all domain-specific measures; and (3) the affective domains of functioning (psychological distress, mental health) were weakly related to perceived overall health. Bodily pain, chronic medical morbidity and, to a lesser extent, physical functioning were more strongly related to perceived overall health. These results were fairly consistent for men and women and for three age groups. We conclude that a global, single-item measure of perceived health and domain-specific health measures are not exchangeable in evaluation, survey, or epidemiological research.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jan
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| pubmed:issn |
0895-4356
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
51
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
11-8
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Activities of Daily Living,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Affect,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Aged, 80 and over,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Analysis of Variance,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Attitude to Health,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Cross-Sectional Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Discriminant Analysis,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Female,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Geriatric Assessment,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Health Status,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Health Status Indicators,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Male,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Middle Aged,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Morbidity,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Questionnaires,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Regression Analysis,
pubmed-meshheading:9467630-Reproducibility of Results
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| pubmed:year |
1998
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Relationship of domain-specific measures of health to perceived overall health among older subjects.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Northern Centre for Healthcare Research, School of Medicine, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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