Over-indebtedness and health in Switzerland: A cross-sectional study comparing over-indebted individuals and the general population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous international studies have shown that over-indebtedness is associated with poor health. However, in Switzerland research addressing over-indebtedness is widely lacking, strongly needed and particularly important because it is evidently a rising but still commonly tabooed, socially "undesired" and highly stigmatized phenomenon that is rarely discussed and largely ignored and unexplored.

Methods

A cross-sectional survey was conducted among over-indebted adults seeking advice from one of the four official debt advisory centers in the Canton of Zurich. The survey finally included 219 respondents participating voluntarily and anonymously. This sample was then linked with a comparable subsample of the nationally representative Swiss Health Survey of 2017, namel

SUBMITTER: Hammig O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9553041 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature