Avtor/Urednik     Zaletel-Kragelj, Lijana; Pahor, Majda; Bilban, Marjan
Naslov     Identification of population groups at very high risk for frequent perception of stress in Slovenia
Tip     članek
Vir     Croat Med J
Vol. in št.     Letnik 46, št. 1
Leto izdaje     2005
Obseg     str. 137-45
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     To identify population groups at very high risk for frequent perception of stress and thus enable more focused planning of prevention actions in Slovenia. Data originate from the national survey carried out in 2001 on health behavior of 15,379 adults aged 25-64. The overall response rate of the mailed questionnaire was 64%, with 9,043 questionnaires eligible for analysis. B inary multiple logistic regression was used to determine the impact of gender, age, education, employment, self-assessed social class, type of residence community, and geographic.a) region on the prevalence of frequent stress perception. The highest odds for stress were registered in women (OR women vs men=1.39, P < 0.001), aged 40-49 years (OR40-49 vs 30-39=1.18, p=0.017; OR50-59 vs 40-49=0.73, P< 0.001), participants with the lowest (OR primanry uncompleted primary education=0.72, P=0.008) and the highest education levels (OR college or higher vs secondary education =1.26, P=0.022), unemployed participants (OR unemployed housekeepers/students= 1.80, P=0.001), and administrative/intellectual employees (OR administrative/intellectual employees vs housekeepers/students=1.75, P=0.001 ), participants self-classified in the lowest social class (OR labor vs lower=0.50, P< 0.001), residents from urban and suburban communities (OR rural vs suburban/urban residence community=0.86, P=0.037), and participants from the Eastern geographical region of Slovenia (OR Eastern vs Western=1.12, P=0.097). In Slovenia, employed women, aged 40-49, with at least college education level were identified as the largest population sub-group at very high risk for frequent stress perception with at least minor difficulties in coping with these feelings, requiring specific public health measures to be introduced in this group.
Deskriptorji     HEALTH BEHAVIOR
STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL
ADULT
SEX FACTORS
AGE FACTORS
PREVALENCE
ODDS RATIO
LOGISTIC MODELS
QUESTIONNAIRES
SLOVENIA