Journal Article

Self-rated health and its bidirectional relationship with burnout, sleep quality and somatic symptoms in a general adult population

Sundström, Anna, Nordin, Steven, Hakelind, Camilla, Nordin, Maria

2024

Overview

The aim of this study was to investigate how self-rated health (SRH) reflects ongoing ill-health and how SRH is associated with previous ill-health and/or predicts future ill-health such as burnout, disturbed sleep, and somatic symptoms. The study used two waves from the population-based Västerbotten Environmental and Health Study in which 2 336 adult persons participated by answering a questionnaire at two time points three years apart. Hierarchical and logistic regression analyses were conducted, thus treating all variables both continuously (degree) and categorically (case). The analyses were performed both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. The results showed bidirectionality between suboptimal SRH and burnout, disturbed sleep and somatic severity caseness. Moreover, degree of poor SRH was more likely to occur simultaneously to high degrees of burnout and somatic severity than to degree of poor sleep quality. Also, caseness of burnout, disturbed sleep and somatic severity increased the risk of simultaneous suboptimal SRH. Finally, the results showed that degree of burnout three years earlier, predicted degree of poor SRH, and that degree of poor SRH predicted degree of sleep three years later. In conclusion, in a population-based, normal adult sample there is a bidirectional relationship between suboptimal SRH and caseness of burnout, disturbed sleep quality and somatic symptoms, but not between degree of these symptoms. The results can have implications for health care meeting patients complaining about poor general health.

• Publisher: BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
• Subject: Adult / Adults / Aged / Analysis / Biostatistics / Burn out (Psychology) / Burnout / Burnout, Psychological - epidemiology / Burnout, Psychological - psychology / Chronic illnesses / Chronic pain / Computer industry / Constipation / Cross-Sectional Studies / Development and progression / Diagnostic Self Evaluation / Environmental Health / Epidemiology / Female / Health Status / Humans / Influence / Irritable bowel syndrome / Longitudinal Studies / Male / Medically Unexplained Symptoms / Medicine / Medicine & Public Health / Middle age / Middle Aged / Population studies / Primary care / Public Health / Regression analysis / Risk factors / Self Report / Sleep / Sleep disorders / Sleep Quality / Sleep Wake Disorders - epidemiology / Sleep Wake Disorders - psychology / Somatoform disorders / Surveys / Surveys and Questionnaires / Sweden - epidemiology / Teenagers / Vaccine / Young Adult