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Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): Study Protocol of a population-based study

Velupillai, YN; Packard, CJ; Batty, GD; Bezlyak, V; Burns, H; Cavanagh, J; Deans, K; ... Tannahill, C; + view all (2008) Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): Study Protocol of a population-based study. BMC Public Health , 8 , Article 126. 10.1186/1471-2458-8-126. Green open access

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Abstract

Background: Disadvantaged communities suffer higher levels of physical and mental ill health than more advantaged communities. The purpose of the present study was to examine the psychosocial, behavioural and biological determinants of ill health within population groups in Glasgow that differed in socioeconomic status and in their propensity to develop chronic disease especially coronary heart disease and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: Participants were selected at random from areas known to be at the extremes of the socioeconomic continuum in Glasgow. Within the categories of least deprived and most deprived, recruitment was stratified by sex and age to achieve an overall sample containing approximately equal numbers of males and females and an even distribution across the age categories 35-44, 45-54 and 55-64 years. Individuals were invited by letter to attend for assessment of their medical history, risk factor status, cognitive function and psychological profile, morbidity, and carotid intima-media thickness and plaque count as indices of atherosclerosis. Anonymised data on study subjects were collected from the General Practice Administration System for Scotland to analyse characteristics of participants and non-participants.Results: 700 subjects were recruited. The response (active participants per 100 invitation letters) in the least deprived group was 35.1% and in the most deprived group was 20.3%. Lowest response was seen in young males (least deprived 22.4% and most deprived 14.1%). Conclusion: This cross-sectional study recruited the planned sample of subjects from least deprived and most deprived areas within Glasgow. As evident in other studies response differed between the most and least deprived areas. This study brought together researchers/academics from diverse disciplines to build a more sophisticated understanding of the determinants of health inequalities than can be achieved through unidisciplinary approaches. Future analyses will enable an understanding of the relationships between the different types of measure, and of the pathways that link poverty, biology, behaviour and psychology and lead to health inequalities.

Type: Article
Title: Psychological, social and biological determinants of ill health (pSoBid): Study Protocol of a population-based study
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-126
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-126
Language: English
Additional information: © 2008 Velupillai et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Coronary-heart-disease, C-Reactive Protein, intima-media thickness, myocardial-infarction, Whitehall-II, socioeconomic position, systemic inflammation, insulin-resistance, cognitive decline, risk-factors
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/351474
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