PhD Scientific Days 2024

Poster Session C - Mental Health Sciences 1.

Intra-couple health concordances in Hungarian cohabiting couples

Előadó neve

Mr. Brys, Zoltan

Neptun code

H6UDR2

Előadó munkahelye

Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Division, Doctoral College of Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Előadó telefonszáma

06301847036

Előadó e-mail címe

zoltan.brys@gmail.com

Az előadás címe

Intra-couple health concordances in Hungarian cohabiting couples

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Zoltán Brys¹, Melinda Pénzes², Fruzsina Albert³

1: Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Division, Doctoral College of Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
2: Data-Driven Health Division of the National Laboratory for Health Security, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
3: Institute of Mental Health, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Szekció

Poster Session C - Mental Health Sciences 1.

Language of the presentation

English

Preferred session

Mental Health Sciences

Összefoglaló szövege

Introduction: unhealthy behaviors are major contributors to the global burden of diseases. While most public health research focuses on the prevalence and determinants of individual health behaviors, intra-couple health concordance has also been documented in the literature.
Aim: to investigate intra-couple health concordance among cohabiting Hungarian couples across multiple health domains including vaccination uptake and attitudes, dietary habits, physical activity, tobacco use, and sleep.
Methods: An observational, cross-sectional study was conducted using self-reported survey data collected online from 1,500 Hungarian individuals between November 15 and November 26, 2022. Participants in this study (n=654) were required to be in a romantic relationship, living with their partner, and not living with any other adults in the household. Respondents reported information about both themselves and their partners. Health-concordance was analyzed calculating Cohen's H between the observed proportion of concordant couples and the proportion expected by random.
Results: Strong concordance was found for vaccination related concordances (99% CI 0.52—0.88), moderate for vegetable consumption (99% CI 0.40—0.54), tobacco use (99% CI 0.33—0.48), and physical exercise (99% CI 0.30—0.45), and low for sleep problems (99% CI 0.16—0.31).
Conclusion: Our study demonstrates diverse levels of health concordance depending on the domain among cohabiting romantic partners. Vaccination related ones exhibited the strongest concordance, followed by moderate concordance in vegetable consumption and tobacco use, while sleep exhibited low levels of concordance. Our findings contribute to the understanding of intra-couple dynamics in health behaviors and underscore the importance of tailored interventions aimed at promoting healthy behaviors within cohabiting romantic partnerships.
Funding: the data collection was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Science “High-risk/high yield research on post-COVID phenomena” fund (PC2022 II-5/2022).

University

Semmelweis University

Supervisor

Prof.Dr.Fruzsina Albert and Dr. Melinda Pénzes

Publication of my abstract

I do not give consent to the publication of my abstract on the website of the congress.

Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

poszter

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

7453

Start

15:25

End

15:28