From: Psychosocial stress impairs health behavior in patients with mental disorders
PHQ-stress scale (M; SD) | M | SD | p-value | |||||
Total | 8.08 | 4.26 | <0.001 | |||||
Women | 8.70 | 4.29 | ||||||
Men | 7.34 | 4.11 | ||||||
PHQ-stress items (M; n) | ||||||||
not bothered | bothered a little | bothered a lot | ||||||
Worries about health | 15.1 | (335) | 27.8 | (619) | 57.1 | (1269) | <0.001 | |
Women | 12.2 | (152) | 26.0 | (325) | 61.8 | (772) | [1] | |
Men | 18.8 | (183) | 30.2 | (294) | 51.0 | (497) | [1] | |
Stress at work or at school | 43.7 | (933) | 22.0 | (470) | 34.3 | (732) | <0.01 | |
Women | 41.9 | (501) | 20.5 | (245) | 37.6 | (449) | [3] | |
Men | 46.0 | (432) | 23.9 | (225) | 30.1 | (283) | [3] | |
Worries about weight or look | 31.9 | (710) | 36.0 | (802) | 32.1 | (716) | <0.001 | |
Women | 27.3 | (343) | 33.0 | (415) | 39.6 | (498) | [2] | |
Men | 37.8 | (367) | 39.8 | (387) | 22.4 | (218) | [6] | |
Financial problems or worries | 39.6 | (877) | 30.1 | (667) | 30.2 | (669) | n.s. | |
Women | 41.7 | (519) | 29.0 | (361) | 29.4 | (366) | [5] | |
Men | 37.0 | (358) | 31.6 | (306) | 31.3 | (303) | [2] | |
Little or no sexual desire | 46.4 | (1004) | 26.7 | (577) | 26.9 | (582) | <0.01 | |
Women | 45.1 | (543) | 24.8 | (299) | 30.1 | (363) | [4] | |
Men | 48.1 | (461) | 29.0 | (278) | 22.9 | (219) | [5] | |
Difficulties with partner | 49.7 | (1066) | 25.5 | (546) | 24.8 | (532) | n.s. | |
Women | 48.7 | (584) | 25.1 | (301) | 26.1 | (313) | [7] | |
Men | 51.0 | (482) | 25.9 | (245) | 23.2 | (219) | [4] | |
Thinking / dreaming about something terrible that happened | 56.2 | (1236) | 18.9 | (416) | 24.8 | (546) | <0.001 | |
Women | 49.1 | (606) | 21.6 | (266) | 29.3 | (361) | [6] | |
Men | 65.3 | (630) | 15.5 | (150) | 19.2 | (185) | [8] | |
Having no one to turn to with problems | 47.2 | (1041) | 29.8 | (657) | 23.0 | (507) | <0.05 | |
Women | 45.0 | (558) | 30.4 | (377) | 24.7 | (306) | [8] | |
Men | 50.1 | (483) | 29.0 | (280) | 20.9 | (201) | [7] | |
Something bad that happened recently | 64.4 | (1391) | 14.7 | (317) | 20.9 | (452) | <0.001 | |
Women | 60.8 | (736) | 15.2 | (184) | 24.0 | (291) | [9] | |
Men | 69.0 | (655) | 14.0 | (133) | 17.0 | (161) | [9] | |
Stress of care taking | 61.5 | (1336) | 20.5 | (446) | 18.0 | (392) | <0.001 | |
Women | 57.3 | (700) | 21.6 | (264) | 21.0 | (257) | [10] | |
Men | 66.7 | (636) | 19.1 | (182) | 14.2 | (135) | [10] |