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dc.contributor.authorTiet-Hanh, Dao-Tran
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Debra
dc.contributor.authorSeib, Charrlotte
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-10T12:31:05Z
dc.date.available2017-10-10T12:31:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1471-244X
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12888-017-1395-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/346737
dc.description.abstractBackground: Research has demonstrated that exposure to life stressors can influence health through a number of pathways. However, knowledge about the patterns of life stressors and their contributions to health in different populations is limited. Vietnamese older women have attracted little research to date in this area. Methods: This cross-sectional study used an interview-administered-questionnaire to collect data from 440 Vietnamese older women. Descriptive analysis was used to describe life stressors among Vietnamese older women. Binary analysis and Structural Equation Modelling statistical analysis were used to examine the influences of life stressors on modifiable lifestyle factors, depressive symptoms, physical and mental health among Vietnamese older women. Results: Vietnamese older women in this study commonly reported the experience of losing a close person, including a baby/child, serious health or money problems, violence and disaster. Among the study participants, (1) exposure to more life stressors increased their depressive symptoms, and decreased their physical and mental health; (2) exposure to more life stressors also increased their physical health by increasing their physical activity levels. Conclusion: Life stressors influenced health among Vietnamese older women through different pathways. Interventions to manage stress and depressive symptoms are required for Vietnamese older women in the future.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherBioMed Central
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom232-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto232-9
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBMC Psychiatry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHealth services and systems
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPublic health
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3202
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4203
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4206
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode52
dc.titleHow life stressors influence modifiable lifestyle factors, depressive symptoms, and physical and mental health among Vietnamese older women?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
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gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery
gro.description.notepublicPage numbers are not for citation purposes. Instead, this article has the unique article number of 232.
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2017. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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