Cent Eur J Public Health 2017, 25(Suppl 1):S51-S56 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a4820

Trends in Life Satisfaction and Self-rated Health in Czech School-aged Children: HBSC Study.

Lenka Hodačová1, Eva Hlaváčková2, Dagmar Sigmundová3, Michal Kalman3, Jaroslava Kopčáková4,5
1 Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
2 Department of Clinical Subspecialities, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic
3 Insitute of Active Lifestyle, Faculty of Physical Culture, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czech Republic
4 Department of Health Psychology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic
5 Graduate School, Kosice Institute for Society and Health, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovak Republic

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to examine cross-sectional time trends of life satisfaction and self-rated health in a representative sample of Czech children aged 11, 13 and 15 years using the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study data from the Czech Republic.

METHODS: Data from survey years 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 was used. The sample consisted of 16,357 participants (48.5% of boys). Life satisfaction (LS) was measured by Cantril's ladder; self-rated health was measured through the simple item "Would you say your health is: excellent, good, fair, poor".

RESULTS: Most of the children were satisfied with their lives in all surveyed years (mean LS scores range from 7.21 to 7.51; maximum 10). LS was consistently significantly associated (p<0.001) with age and gender. Overall, children and adolescents in the Czech Republic also reported good health. In total, 87.6% of respondents from all samples reported their health as excellent or good. Gender was found to be significantly associated with self-rated health (p<0.05) in all surveyed years.

CONCLUSIONS: No permanent trends in both followed indicators have been seen in the examined period.

Keywords: adolescents; life satisfaction; self-rated health; study; time trends

Received: April 19, 2016; Revised: March 1, 2017; Accepted: March 1, 2017; Published: July 1, 2017  Show citation

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Hodačová L, Hlaváčková E, Sigmundová D, Kalman M, Kopčáková J. Trends in Life Satisfaction and Self-rated Health in Czech School-aged Children: HBSC Study. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2017;25(Supplement 1):S51-56. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a4820. PubMed PMID: 28752749.
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