ArticleBMC public health2014
The influence of locus of control on self-rated health in context of chronic disease: a structural equation modeling approach in a cross sectional study.
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DESVELA Cohort. Analysis of the Role of Personal Skills as Determinants of Incidence of Morbidity, Lifestyles, Quality of Life, Use of Services and Mortality.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Health assets in older age: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2017Pooled it
- Primary care patients' perspectives of barriers and enablers of primary prevention and health promotion-a meta-ethnographic synthesis.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
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- Understanding illness experiences of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis: a qualitative analysis within the SOMA.LIV study.BMC gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Role of personal aptitudes as determinants of incident morbidity, lifestyles, quality of life, use of health services, and mortality (DESVELA cohort): quantitative study protocol for a prospective cohort study in a hybrid analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Beliefs about Pain Control in Patients after Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery-A Preliminary Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Influence of the Locus of Control Construct on the Efficacy of Physiotherapy Treatments in Patients with Chronic Pain: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Review
- Association of lifestyle and disease characteristics with self-rated wellness/health score in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.BMC rheumatology · 2021Article
- Pain Control: Normalization of the BPCQ Questionnaire on a Group of Patients Diagnosed with Malignant Cancer.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Characterizing Wuhan residents' mask-wearing intention at early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.Patient education and counseling · 2021Article
- Millennials: sickness presenteeism and its correlates: a cross-sectional online survey.BMJ open · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundSelf-rated health is a robust predictor of several health outcomes, such as functional ability, health care utilization, morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study is to investigate and explore how health locus of control and disease burden relate to self-rated health among patients at risk for cardiovascular disease.
methodsIn 2009, 414 Swedish patients who were using statins completed a questionnaire about their health, diseases and their views on the three-dimensional health locus of control scale. The scale determines which category of health locus of control - internal, chance or powerful others - a patient most identifies with. The data was analyzed using logistic regression and a structural equation modeling approach.
resultsThe analyses showed positive associations between internal health locus of control and self-rated health, and a negative association between health locus of control in chance and powerful others and self-rated health. High internal health locus of control was negatively associated with the cumulative burden of diseases, while health locus of control in chance and powerful others were positively associated with burden of diseases. In addition, age and education level had indirect associations with self-rated health through health locus of control.
conclusionsThis study suggests that self-rated health is positively correlated with internal locus of control and negatively associated with high locus of control in chance and powerful others in patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, disease burden seems to be negatively associated with self-rated health.
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