Unhappiness and mortality: evidence from a middle-income Southeast Asian setting
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Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara; Sleigh, Adrian; Seubsman, Sam-Ang
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BACKGROUND A relationship between happiness and mortality might seem obvious, but outside of affluent settings in developed countries there is almost no actual evidence that this is so. FINDINGS We report our findings on happiness and mortality in Buddhist Southeast Asia. Our data are derived from a prospective nationwide cohort study of 60,569 Thai adults reporting in 2009 and followed up for all-cause mortality over the next four years (296 deaths). We also gathered data on a wide array of...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara | |
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dc.contributor.author | Sleigh, Adrian | |
dc.contributor.author | Seubsman, Sam-Ang | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-18T22:50:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-18T22:50:22Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1751-0759 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/95508 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND A relationship between happiness and mortality might seem obvious, but outside of affluent settings in developed countries there is almost no actual evidence that this is so. FINDINGS We report our findings on happiness and mortality in Buddhist Southeast Asia. Our data are derived from a prospective nationwide cohort study of 60,569 Thai adults reporting in 2009 and followed up for all-cause mortality over the next four years (296 deaths). We also gathered data on a wide array of covariates and included these in the final model of the unhappiness-mortality effect. All final effect estimates were mutually adjusted odds ratios (AOR) and cohort members who reported being happy 'little' or 'none of the time' in 2009 were more likely to die (AOR 2.60, 95% Confidence Interval 1.17-5.80). Other significant covariates include being female (<40 years AOR 0.66, ≥40 years AOR 0.57), unmarried (AOR 1.64) and current smokers (AOR 2.45). CONCLUSION Our study provides empirical evidence that the epidemiological effect of happiness is not confined to affluent Western countries, but it also increases the probability of staying alive in a middle-income Asian country. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This study was supported by the International Collaborative Research Grants Scheme with joint grants from the Wellcome Trust UK (GR071587MA) and the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (268055), and as a global health grant from the NHMRC (585426). | |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | |
dc.rights | © Yiengprugsawan et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | |
dc.source | BioPsychoSocial Medicine | |
dc.subject | cohort study | |
dc.subject | happiness | |
dc.subject | mortality | |
dc.subject | psychological wellbeing | |
dc.subject | thailand | |
dc.title | Unhappiness and mortality: evidence from a middle-income Southeast Asian setting | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 8 | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-08-07 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 170100 | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | U3488905xPUB4439 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.biomedcentral.com/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Research School of Population Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Seubsman, Sam-ang, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Research School of Population Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Sleigh, Adrian, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, CMBE Research School of Population Health, Natl Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, The Australian National University | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/268055 | |
dc.relation | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/585426 | |
local.identifier.essn | 1751-0759 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 18 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 5 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1751-0759-8-18 | |
dc.date.updated | 2016-02-24T10:06:39Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-84905827872 | |
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