TY - JOUR
T1 - Socioeconomic inequalities in adolescent health complaints
T2 - A multilevel latent class analysis in 45 countries
AU - Hammami, Nour
AU - Gobina, Inese
AU - Lukoševičiūtė, Justė
AU - Kostičová, Michaela
AU - Lyyra, Nelli
AU - Gariepy, Genevieve
AU - Šmigelskas, Kastytis
AU - Baban, Adriana
AU - Malinowska-Cieślik, Marta
AU - Elgar, Frank J.
N1 - © The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Our study evaluated the relationship between adolescent health complaints and socioeconomic position in 45 countries. Data are from the 2017/2018 international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey which used proportionate sampling among adolescents aged 11 to 15 years old (n=228,979). Multilevel, multinomial regression analysis assessed the association between the multilevel latent classes with socioeconomic status (SES; at the household and country level). Three distinct latent classes were identified: No Complaints, Psychological Complaints, and a Physical and Psychological Complaints class; where, low household SES was highest for the physical and psychological complaints class. The findings suggest that health promotion policies and interventions among adolescents should consider the specific needs of adolescents living with low household SES as they report more subjective health complaints.
AB - Our study evaluated the relationship between adolescent health complaints and socioeconomic position in 45 countries. Data are from the 2017/2018 international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey which used proportionate sampling among adolescents aged 11 to 15 years old (n=228,979). Multilevel, multinomial regression analysis assessed the association between the multilevel latent classes with socioeconomic status (SES; at the household and country level). Three distinct latent classes were identified: No Complaints, Psychological Complaints, and a Physical and Psychological Complaints class; where, low household SES was highest for the physical and psychological complaints class. The findings suggest that health promotion policies and interventions among adolescents should consider the specific needs of adolescents living with low household SES as they report more subjective health complaints.
KW - Adolescents
KW - HBSC
KW - Mental health
KW - Multiple health complaints
KW - Psychosomatic
KW - Socioeconomic position
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127599024&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12144-022-03038-6
DO - 10.1007/s12144-022-03038-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 35382037
AN - SCOPUS:85127599024
SN - 1046-1310
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Current Psychology
JF - Current Psychology
ER -
