Thesis Defense - An Examination of Self-rated Health and Self-rating of Life and Possible Predicting Factors
Date: May 16, 2001
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Commonwealth Hall , Room: 715
Speaker(s):
Roberta Kresky, M.S. Candidate in Biomedical Science
Supervising Professor, Dr. Nira Herrmann
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Self-rated health is a recent field of research and has been found in various studies to be a reliable predictor of mortality and morbidity. However, this phenomena is still a mystery. In an attempt to further explain this mystery of self-rated health this study was designed to examine if there is an association between self-rated health and self-rating of life. This study also attempts to determine which factors could possibly be predictors of self-rated health and self-rating of life.
The subjects in this study are a sub-sample from a larger study. Data was taken from a screening questionnaire of 191 eligible subjects. Trained researchers conducted these ten-minute screening interviews.
When statistical analysis was preformed there was found to be a significant association between self-rated health and self-rating of life (p = 0.00). When examining the differences between responses to the two main questions of self-rated health and self-rating of life. Ninety percent rated their health lower than or the same as their life.
When examining the factors that are related to self-rated health and self-rating of life it was determined that both self-rated health and self-rating of life were most highly correlated with disruption in life, level of bodily pain, level of physical ability, and geriatric depression score. Creating a logistic regression model it was determined that the level of a person’s physical ability was the greatest predictor of how they rate their health as well as their life.
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