A prospective analysis of the effect of neighbourhood and individual social capital on changes in self-rated health of people with chronic illness

BMC Public Health

Peter Groenewegen²  Peter Spreeuwenberg³  Mieke Rijken³  Sigrid Mohnen⁴  Mary K Wolfe¹  Geeke Waverijn³ 

[1]At the time of this research, master student in Urban Geography, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands

[2]Department of Sociology, Department of Human Geography, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands

[3]Nivel, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Otterstraat 118 – 124, 3513 CR Utrecht, The Netherlands

[4]RIVM, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Antonie van Leeuwenhoeklaan 9, 3721 MA Bilthoven, The Netherlands

关键词: Multilevel modelling;    Self-rated health;    Chronic illness;    Neighbourhood;    Social capital;   

Others  :  866323
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-14-675

 received in 2014-03-19, accepted in 2014-06-26,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Social capital in the living environment, both on the individual and neighbourhood level, is positively associated with people’s self-rated health; however, prospective and longitudinal studies are rare, making causal conclusions difficult. To shed more light on the direction of the relationship between social capital and self-rated health, we investigated main and interaction effects of individual and neighbourhood social capital at baseline on changes in self-rated health of people with a somatic chronic disease.

Methods

Individual social capital, self-rated health and other individual level variables were assessed among a nationwide sample of 1048 non-institutionalized people with a somatic chronic disease residing in 259 neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. The assessment of neighbourhood social capital was based on data from a nationwide survey among the general Dutch population. The association of social capital with changes in self-rated health was assessed by multilevel regression analysis.

Results

Both individual social capital and neighbourhood social capital at baseline were significantly associated with changes in self-rated health over the time period of 2005 to 2008 while controlling for several disease characteristics, other individual level and neighbourhood level characteristics. No significant interactions were found between social capital on the individual and on the neighbourhood level.

Conclusions

Higher levels of individual and neighbourhood social capital independently and positively affect changes in self-rated health of people with chronic illness. Although most of the variation in health is explained at the individual level, one’s social environment should be considered as a possible relevant influence on the health of the chronically ill.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Waverijn et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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