The Role of Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics on Mental Health after a Period of Economic Crisis in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Multilevel Analysis

• Autor(a) principal: Loureiro, Adriana Sofia da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Ana Paula Santana, Nunes, Carla, Almendra, Ricardo Jorge Meireles
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16152647
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/89019; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16152647
• topic: Portugal; economic crisis; mental health; mental health determinants; neighborhood environment

Mental health is an intrinsic dimension of health influenced by individual and contextual factors. This cross-sectional study analyzes the association between the individual, neighborhood characteristics, and one's self-assessed mental health status in the Lisbon region after an economic crisis. Via the application of multilevel regression models, the study assesses the link between one's neighborhood environment-deprivation, low self-assessed social capital, and low self-assessed satisfaction with the area of residence-and mental health regardless of one's individual characteristics. Constraints related to the economic crisis play an important role in the explanation of poor mental health.