Lifestyle and health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study among civil servants in China.

Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly acknowledged as a valid and appropriate indicator of public health and chronic morbidity. However, limited research was conducted among Chinese civil servants owing to the different lifestyle. The aim of the study was to evalua...

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Publicado en:BMC Public Health Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 330 - 331
Autores principales: Xu, Jun, Qiu, Jincai, Chen, Jie, Zou, Liai, Feng, Liyi, Lu, Yan, Wei, Qian, Zhang, Jinhua
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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          Xu, Jun
          Qiu, Jincai
          Chen, Jie
          Zou, Liai
          Feng, Liyi
          Lu, Yan
          Wei, Qian
          Zhang, Jinhua
        affil: Department of Sanitation Economy Administration, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, PR China. drugstat@163.com.
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          Health Status
          Life Style
          Occupations and Professions
          Quality of Life
          Adolescence
          Adult
          China
          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Female
          Human
          Male
          Middle Age
          Questionnaires
          Regression
          Risk Factors
          Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36)
          Young Adult
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Female
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      ab: Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been increasingly acknowledged as a valid and appropriate indicator of public health and chronic morbidity. However, limited research was conducted among Chinese civil servants owing to the different lifestyle. The aim of the study was to evaluate the HRQoL among Chinese civil servants and to identify factors might be associated with their HRQoL.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate HRQoL of 15,000 civil servants in China using stratified random sampling methods. Independent-Samples t-Test, one-way ANOVA, and multiple stepwise regression were used to analyse the influencing factors and the HRQoL of the civil servants.Results: A univariate analysis showed that there were significant differences among physical component summary (PCS), mental component summary (MCS), and TS between lifestyle factors, such as smoking, drinking alcohol, having breakfast, sleep time, physical exercise, work time, operating computers, and sedentariness (P < 0.05). Multiple stepwise regressions showed that there were significant differences among TS between lifestyle factors, such as breakfast, sleep time, physical exercise, operating computers, sedentariness, work time, and drinking (P < 0.05).Conclusion: In this study, using Short Form 36 items (SF-36), we assessed the association of HRQoL with lifestyle factors, including smoking, drinking alcohol, having breakfast, sleep time, physical exercise, work time, operating computers, and sedentariness in China. The performance of the questionnaire in the large-scale survey is satisfactory and provides a large picture of the HRQoL status in Chinese civil servants. Our results indicate that lifestyle factors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, having breakfast, sleep time, physical exercise, work time, operating computers, and sedentariness affect the HRQoL of civil servants in China.
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