Home
Deutsch
Advanced Search
Browse by ...
Publication overview
Contact persons
Help
Publ. Version/Full Text
DOI
PMC
 |
Open Access Gold |
|
as soon as is submitted to ZB.
Gender inequalities in the association between area deprivation and perceived social support: A cross-sectional multilevel analysis at the municipality level in Germany.
BMJ Open 8:e019973 (2018)
© 2018 Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article). All rights reserved. Objectives To investigate the association between area deprivation at municipality level with low perceived social support, independent of individual socioeconomic position and demographic characteristics. To assess whether there are gender inequalities in this association. Design Cross-sectional multilevel analysis of survey data. Setting Germany. Participants 3350 men and 3665 women living in 167 municipalities throughout Germany participating in the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Adults' (DEGS1 2008-2011) as part of the national health monitoring. Outcome Perceived social support as measured by Oslo-3 Social Support Scale. Results Prevalence of low perceived social support was 11.4% in men and 11.1% in women. Low social support was associated in men and women with sociodemographic characteristics that indicate more disadvantaged living situations. Taking these individual-level characteristics into account, municipal-level deprivation was independently associated with low perceived social support in men (OR for the most deprived quintile: 1.80 (95% CI 1.14 to 2.84)), but not in women (OR 1.22 (95% CI 0.78 to 1.90)). Conclusion The results of our multilevel analysis suggest that there are gender inequalities in the association of municipal-level deprivation with the prevalence of low perceived social support in Germany independent of individual socioeconomic position. Community health interventions aiming at promotion of social support among residents might profit from a further understanding of the observed gender differences.
Altmetric
Additional Metrics?
Edit extra informations
Login
Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Epidemiology ; Mental Health ; Public Health
ISSN (print) / ISBN
2044-6055
e-ISSN
2044-6055
Journal
BMJ Open
Quellenangaben
Volume: 8,
Issue: 4,
Article Number: e019973
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group
Non-patent literature
Publications
Reviewing status
Peer reviewed