Biological and other health related correlates of long-term life dissatisfaction burden

BMC Psychiatry

Research Article

Tarja Saharinen¹  Teemu Rissanen²  Heimo Viinamäki³  Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen⁴  Jukka Hintikka⁵  Soili M Lehto⁶  Kirsi Honkalampi⁷ 

[1] Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, P.O.B. 1777, FI-70211, Kuopio, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, P.O.B. 1777, FI-70211, Kuopio, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, Lahti, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, P.O.B. 1777, FI-70211, Kuopio, Finland;School of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Kuopio University Hospital, P.O.B. 1777, FI-70211, Kuopio, Finland;School of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, South-Savonia Hospital District, Mikkeli, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, SOSTERI, Savonlinna, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, SOTE, Iisalmi, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Lapland Hospital District, Rovaniemi, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;Department of Psychiatry, Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, Lahti, Finland;Institute of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland;School of Clinical Medicine, Psychiatry, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland;School of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland;

关键词: Life satisfaction;    Burden;    Social support;    Inflammation;    Adiponectin;    Metabolic syndrome;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-244X-13-202

 received in 2012-10-09, accepted in 2013-07-31,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMental health is interconnected with somatic health and can manifest itself in biological processes. Life dissatisfaction is an indicator of subjective well-being, but information on its biological correlates is scarce. The aim of this study was to investigate the biological correlates along with other health-related factors of long-term life dissatisfaction in a population-based sample.MethodsAs part of the Kuopio Depression Study, health questionnaires were sent to a randomly selected population-based sample in 1998, 1999, and 2001. In 2005, among a clinically studied sub-sample (n = 305), the 7-year long-term life dissatisfaction burden was assessed by summing life satisfaction scores from previous health questionnaires. Several sociodemographic, health, health behavior, and biological factors were investigated in respect to their associations to categorized (low and high) and continuous (linear regression) life satisfaction burden score (higher values indicating dissatisfaction).ResultsIn the final linear regression model long-term life dissatisfaction burden was significantly associated with poor social support (B = 0.138; p < 0.001), marital status (i.e. living alone) (B = 0.049; p = 0.019), current smoking (B = 0.087; p < 0.001), poor sleep (B = 0.052; p = 0.001), use of statins (B = −0.052; p = 0.002) and lower serum adiponectin level (B = −0.001; p = 0.039) whereas association of metabolic syndrome was marginally nonsignificant (B = 0.029; p = 0.055).ConclusionLong-term life dissatisfaction is associated with adverse health, health behavioral, and social factors, as well as with a decreased anti-inflammatory buffer capacity, all indicating close relationships between subjective well-being and somatic morbidity.

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