The association between socioeconomic deprivation and secondary school students’ health: findings from a latent class analysis of a national adolescent health survey

International Journal for Equity in Health

Research

Tasileta Teevale¹  Donna Wynd²  Theresa Fleming³  Sonia Lewycka³  Simon Denny³  Fiona Rossen⁴  Pat Bullen⁵  Terryann Clark⁶  Janie Sheridan⁷  Jennifer Utter⁸  Roshini Peiris-John⁸ 

[1] Academic Division, University of Otago, Auckland, New Zealand;Child and Youth Health Team, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand;Department of Social & Community Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;School of Learning Development and Professional Practice, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;School of Nursing, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;Section of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;

关键词: Socioeconomic deprivation;    Poverty;    Adolescence;    Mental health;    Obesity;    Cigarette use;    Latent class analysis;    Multilevel modelling;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12939-016-0398-5

 received in 2016-01-27, accepted in 2016-07-06,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe aims of this study were to examine indicators of socioeconomic deprivation among secondary school students and to determine associations between household poverty, neighbourhood deprivation and health indicators.MethodsData were from a nationally representative sample of 8500 secondary school students in New Zealand who participated in a health survey in 2012. Latent class analyses were used to group students by household poverty based on nine indicators of household socioeconomic deprivation: no car; no phone; no computer; their parent/s worry about not having enough money for food; more than two people sharing a bedroom; no holidays with their families; moving home more than twice that year; garages or living rooms used as bedrooms; and, no parent at home with employment. Multilevel generalized linear models were used to estimate the cross-level interaction between household poverty and neighbourhood deprivation with depressive symptoms, cigarette smoking and overweight/ obesity.ResultsThree groups of students were identified: 80 % of students had low levels of household poverty across all indicators; 15 % experienced moderate poverty; and 5 % experienced high levels of poverty. Depressive symptoms and cigarette smoking were 2–3 times higher in the poverty groups compared to student’s not experiencing poverty. There were also higher rates of overweight/ obesity among students in the poverty groups compared to students not experiencing poverty, but once covariates were accounted for the relationship was less clear. Of note, students experiencing poverty and living in affluent neighbourhoods reported higher levels of depressive symptoms and higher rates of cigarette smoking than students experiencing poverty and living in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods. This cross-level interaction was not seen for overweight/ obesity.ConclusionsMeasures of household socioeconomic deprivation among young people should not be combined with neighbourhood measures of socioeconomic deprivation due to non-linear relationships with health and behaviour indicators. Policies are needed that address household poverty alongside efforts to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in neighbourhoods.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016