Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Oct 2014)

Self-perceived health and clinical characteristics in young adult students from the brazilian northeast

  • Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira,
  • Jênifa Cavalcante dos Santos Santiago,
  • Gizelton Pereira Alencar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s0080-6234201400005000004
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 48, no. 5
pp. 794 – 803

Abstract

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Objective To analyze the association between socioeconomic situation, clinical characteristics referred and the family history of cardiovascular disease, with the Self-perceived health of young adults education and their implications for clinical characteristics observed. Method Analytical study conducted with 501 young adults who are students in countryside city in the Brazilian Northeast. We used binary logistic regression. Results The final model explained 83.3% of the self-perceived positive health, confirming the association of Self-perceived health with male, residence in the community, have excellent/very good lifestyle and does not have or do not know that there are cases of stroke in the family. Conclusion Health perception was often optimistic, being important to identify devices to be worked closer to their perception of their actual health condition, increasing the effectiveness of health promotion activities undertaken by professionals.

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