Multilevel Analysis of the Patterns of Physical-Mental Multimorbidity in General Population of Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area, Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Chronic diseases are often comorbid and present a weighty burden for communities in the 21^st century. The present investigation depicted patterns of multimorbidity in the general population and examined its association with the individual- and area-level factors in an urban sample of non-elderly adults of Brazil. Data were from the cross-sectional São Paulo Megacity Mental Health Survey, a stratified multistage area probability sampling investigation. Trained interviewers assessed mental morbidities and asked about physical conditions for 1,571 community-dwelling women and 1,142 men, aged between 18 and 64 years. Principal component analysis depicted patterns of physical-mental multimorbidity, by sex. Following, the patterns of multimorbidity were subjected to multilevel regress

SUBMITTER: Wang YP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6382818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature