Atzendorf, Josefine and Apfelbacher, Christian and de Matos, Elena Gomes and Kraus, Ludwig and Piontek, Daniela (2018) Patterns of multiple lifestyle risk factors and their link to mental health in the German adult population: a cross-sectional study. BMJ OPEN, 8 (12): e022184. ISSN 2044-6055,
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Objectives Lifestyle risk factors, such as drinking or unhealthy diet, can expotentiate detrimental health effects. Therefore, it is important to investigate multiple lifestyle risk factors instead of single ones. The study aims at: (1) identifying patterns of lifestyle risk factors within the adult general population in Germany and (2) examining associations between the extracted patterns and external factors. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting General German adult population (aged 18-64 years). Participants Participants of the 2015 Epidemiological Survey of Substance Abuse (n=9204). Primary outcome measures Lifestyle risk factors (daily smoking, at-risk alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, low physical activity, weekly use of pharmaceuticals, as well as consumption of cannabis and other illicit drugs). Results A latent class analysis was applied to identify patterns of lifestyle risk factors, and a multinomial logistic regression was carried out to examine associations between the extracted classes and external factors. A total of four classes were extracted which can be described as healthy lifestyle (58.5%), drinking lifestyle (24.4%), smoking lifestyle (15.4%) and a cumulate risk factors lifestyle (1.7%). Individuals who were male, at younger age and single as well as individuals with various mental health problems were more likely to show multiple lifestyle risk factors. Conclusions Healthcare professionals should be aware of correlations between different lifestyle risk factors as well as between lifestyle risk groups and mental health. Health promotion strategies should further focus especially on younger and single men.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; BEHAVIORS; MORTALITY; CLUSTERS; ALCOHOL; SMOKING; |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Institut für Epidemiologie und Präventivmedizin > Medical Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2019 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2019 08:28 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/13397 |
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