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The Influence of Social Capital Domains on Self-Rated Health Among Serbian High-School Students? A School-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Social capital has been shown as a positive asset for improving overall health in ch ildren and youth. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to determine the associations between fami ly, neighborhood and school social c apital with self-rated health among Serbian high-school students. This cross-sectional st udy on 1220 high-school students ( 539 males and 681 females) was carried out in the school year 2015/2016. Main outcome was defined as self-rated health, measured by one question: "How would you rate your health?" with five possible answers: (1) very poor ; (2) poor, (3) fair, (4) good and (5) excellent. We binarised the outcome, where answers "very poor", "poor" and "fair" represen ted "poor health" and "good" and "excellent" "good health". Multiple logistic regression was used to determine the associa tions between social capital domains and self-rated health. Adjus ted by gender, body-mass index, se lf-perceived socioeconomic st atus, psychological distress and ph ysical activity, good self-rated health was positively associated only with high family social cap ital (OR 2.29 ; 95% CI 1.62 to 3.24). When all the social capit al variables were entered simultaneously, self-rated health remained a ssociated with family social capital (OR 2.28 ; 95% CI 1.61 t o 3.24). Family social capital was the only domain strongly asso ciated with self-rated heal th. Since neighborhood and school soci al capital represent key support and empathy for children and yout h, neighborhood and school-based st rategies and policies should be implemented within the system to incr ease overall physical and mental health.

family ; neighborhood ; school ; adolescents ; logistic regression ; health

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