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ArticleCommunity mental health journal2019

Predictors of Quality of Life in Montreal, Canada: A Longitudinal Study.

Jean Caron, Margaret Cargo, Mark Daniel, Aihua Liu

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Jean CaronDepartment of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. jean.caron@mcgill.ca.
Margaret CargoFaculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
Mark DanielFaculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
Aihua LiuDouglas Mental Health University Institute, 6875 Boul. Lasalle, Montreal, QC, H4H 1R3, Canada.

Funding

CIHR CTP-79839
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study sought to assess factors associated with quality of life (QoL), and predictive of improvements in QoL over time, in a population-based cohort study. A 4-year longitudinal survey was administered to 2433 individuals at the study baseline; of these, 1828 individuals participated in Wave 2, and 1303 participated in Wave 3. QoL was measured by the Satisfaction with Life Domains Scale. Thirty-two variables were correlated with baseline QoL and together explained 58.2% of the variance. Eleven variables were independent predictors of improvement in QoL over time. Among these variables, social support and stress/coping showed the strongest association with QoL, and neighbourhood characteristics had an additional influence. Multidimensional modelling of a broad spectrum of the factors related to QoL enabled situating mental health and well-being in an ecological system with attendant implications for public health and social policy intervention to facilitate improvement of QoL in the population.

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Personal SatisfactionSocial SupportAdaptation, PsychologicalAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedQuality of LifeQuebecStress, PsychologicalSurveys and QuestionnairesLife satisfactionLongitudinal studyNeighbourhoodQuality of lifeSocial supportStress and coping

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