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Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level. / Ottová-Jordan, Veronika; Smith, Otto R F; Gobina, Inese; Mazur, Joanna; Augustine, Lilly; Cavallo, Franco; Välimaa, Raili; Moor, Irene; Torsheim, Torbjørn; Katreniakova, Zuzana; Vollebergh, Wilma; Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike; Positive Health Focus Group.

In: EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH, Vol. 25 , No. Suppl 2, 01.04.2015, p. 83-89.

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Ottová-Jordan, V, Smith, ORF, Gobina, I, Mazur, J, Augustine, L, Cavallo, F, Välimaa, R, Moor, I, Torsheim, T, Katreniakova, Z, Vollebergh, W, Ravens-Sieberer, U & Positive Health Focus Group 2015, 'Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level', EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH, vol. 25 , no. Suppl 2, pp. 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv033

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Ottová-Jordan, V., Smith, O. R. F., Gobina, I., Mazur, J., Augustine, L., Cavallo, F., Välimaa, R., Moor, I., Torsheim, T., Katreniakova, Z., Vollebergh, W., Ravens-Sieberer, U., & Positive Health Focus Group (2015). Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level. EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH, 25 (Suppl 2), 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv033

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Ottová-Jordan V, Smith ORF, Gobina I, Mazur J, Augustine L, Cavallo F et al. Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level. EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH. 2015 Apr 1;25 (Suppl 2):83-89. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckv033

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title = "Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level",
abstract = "BACKGROUND: This article describes trends and stability over time in health complaints in adolescents from 2002 to 2010 and investigates associations between health complaints, behavioural and social contextual factors at individual level and economic factors at macro-level.METHODS: Comprising N = 510 876 11-, 13- and 15-year-old children and adolescents in Europe, North America and Israel, data came from three survey cycles of the international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Age- and gender-adjusted trends in health complaints were examined in each country by means of linear regression. By using the country as the random effects variable, we tested to what extent individual and contextual variables were associated with health complaints.RESULTS: Significant associations are stronger for individual level determinants (e.g. being bullied, smoking) than for determinants at macro-level (e.g. GDP, Gini), as can be seen by the small effect sizes (less than 5% for different trends). Health complaints are fairly stable over time in most countries, and no clear international trend in health complaints can be observed between 2002 and 2010. The most prominent stable determinants were being female, being bullied, school pressure and smoking.CONCLUSION: Factors associated with health complaints are more related to the proximal environment than to distal macro-level factors. This points towards intensifying targeted interventions, (e.g. for bullying) and also targeting specific risk groups. The comparably small effect size at country-level indicates that country-level factors have an impact on health and should not be ignored.",
author = "Veronika Ottov{\'a}-Jordan and Smith, {Otto R F} and Inese Gobina and Joanna Mazur and Lilly Augustine and Franco Cavallo and Raili V{\"a}limaa and Irene Moor and Torbj{\o}rn Torsheim and Zuzana Katreniakova and Wilma Vollebergh and Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer and {Positive Health Focus Group}",
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T1 - Trends in health complaints from 2002 to 2010 in 34 countries and their association with health behaviours and social context factors at individual and macro-level

AU - Ottová-Jordan, Veronika

AU - Smith, Otto R F

AU - Gobina, Inese

AU - Mazur, Joanna

AU - Augustine, Lilly

AU - Cavallo, Franco

AU - Välimaa, Raili

AU - Moor, Irene

AU - Torsheim, Torbjørn

AU - Katreniakova, Zuzana

AU - Vollebergh, Wilma

AU - Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike

AU - Positive Health Focus Group

N1 - © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

PY - 2015/4/1

Y1 - 2015/4/1

N2 - BACKGROUND: This article describes trends and stability over time in health complaints in adolescents from 2002 to 2010 and investigates associations between health complaints, behavioural and social contextual factors at individual level and economic factors at macro-level.METHODS: Comprising N = 510 876 11-, 13- and 15-year-old children and adolescents in Europe, North America and Israel, data came from three survey cycles of the international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Age- and gender-adjusted trends in health complaints were examined in each country by means of linear regression. By using the country as the random effects variable, we tested to what extent individual and contextual variables were associated with health complaints.RESULTS: Significant associations are stronger for individual level determinants (e.g. being bullied, smoking) than for determinants at macro-level (e.g. GDP, Gini), as can be seen by the small effect sizes (less than 5% for different trends). Health complaints are fairly stable over time in most countries, and no clear international trend in health complaints can be observed between 2002 and 2010. The most prominent stable determinants were being female, being bullied, school pressure and smoking.CONCLUSION: Factors associated with health complaints are more related to the proximal environment than to distal macro-level factors. This points towards intensifying targeted interventions, (e.g. for bullying) and also targeting specific risk groups. The comparably small effect size at country-level indicates that country-level factors have an impact on health and should not be ignored.

AB - BACKGROUND: This article describes trends and stability over time in health complaints in adolescents from 2002 to 2010 and investigates associations between health complaints, behavioural and social contextual factors at individual level and economic factors at macro-level.METHODS: Comprising N = 510 876 11-, 13- and 15-year-old children and adolescents in Europe, North America and Israel, data came from three survey cycles of the international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Age- and gender-adjusted trends in health complaints were examined in each country by means of linear regression. By using the country as the random effects variable, we tested to what extent individual and contextual variables were associated with health complaints.RESULTS: Significant associations are stronger for individual level determinants (e.g. being bullied, smoking) than for determinants at macro-level (e.g. GDP, Gini), as can be seen by the small effect sizes (less than 5% for different trends). Health complaints are fairly stable over time in most countries, and no clear international trend in health complaints can be observed between 2002 and 2010. The most prominent stable determinants were being female, being bullied, school pressure and smoking.CONCLUSION: Factors associated with health complaints are more related to the proximal environment than to distal macro-level factors. This points towards intensifying targeted interventions, (e.g. for bullying) and also targeting specific risk groups. The comparably small effect size at country-level indicates that country-level factors have an impact on health and should not be ignored.

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DO - 10.1093/eurpub/ckv033

M3 - SCORING: Journal article

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VL - 25

SP - 83

EP - 89

JO - EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH

JF - EUR J PUBLIC HEALTH

SN - 1101-1262

IS - Suppl 2

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