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To have or not to have a pet for better health?

PloS one, 2006-12, Vol.1 (1), p.e109-e109 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

COPYRIGHT 2006 Public Library of Science ;2006 Koivusilta, Ojanlatva. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (the “License”), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;Koivusilta, Ojanlatva. 2006 ;ISSN: 1932-6203 ;EISSN: 1932-6203 ;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000109 ;PMID: 17205113

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Title:
To have or not to have a pet for better health?
Author: Koivusilta, Leena K ; Ojanlatva, Ansa
Baune, Bernhard
Subjects: Adult ; Age groups ; Analysis ; Angina pectoris ; Animals ; Animals, Domestic ; Arthritis ; Asthma ; Blood pressure ; Body mass ; Body Mass Index ; Body weight ; Bonding, Human-Pet ; Brain research ; Cardiovascular disease ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Data processing ; Demographics ; Dogs ; Education ; Exercise ; Female ; Finland ; Health aspects ; Health behavior ; Health insurance ; Health risk assessment ; Health risks ; Health Status ; Heart attacks ; Humans ; Male ; Medical research ; Medicine, Experimental ; Meningitis ; Mental depression ; Mental health ; Middle Aged ; Mortality ; Motor Activity ; Non-Clinical Medicine/Communication in Health Care ; Non-Clinical Medicine/Research Methods ; Non-Clinical Medicine/Sociology ; Occupational health ; Ownership ; Pets ; Physical fitness ; Physiology ; Population ; Population (statistical) ; Population studies ; Public health ; Public Health and Epidemiology/Environmental Health ; Public Health and Epidemiology/Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health ; Random sampling ; Regression analysis ; Risk analysis ; Risk Factors ; Samples ; Social classes ; Social interactions ; Social support ; Statistical analysis ; Statistical methods ; Studies ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Variables ; Young Adult
Is Part Of: PloS one, 2006-12, Vol.1 (1), p.e109-e109
Description: Pet ownership is thought to have health benefits, but not all scientific explorations have been founded on proper applications of representative samples or statistically correct methodologies. Databanks have been too small for proper statistical analyses; or, instead of a random sample, participation has been voluntary. The direction of causality has been evaluated incorrectly or control of relevant factors noted deficient. This study examined the associations of pet ownership with perceived health and disease indicators by taking into account socio-demographic background factors together with health risk factors, including exercise. The present study used baseline data from the 15-year Health and Social Support Study (the HeSSup Study). The Finnish Population Register Centre was used to draw population-based random samples stratified according to gender and four age groups (20-24, 30-34, 40-44, and 50-54 years). A total of 21,101 working-aged Finns responded to the baseline survey questionnaire of the 15-year HeSSup Study in 1998. Ordinal and binary logistic regression was used to analyze the cross-sectional data. Pet ownership was associated with poor rather than good perceived health. BMI surfaced as the risk factor most strongly associated with pet ownership. Pet owners set in their ways and getting older were found to have a slightly higher BMI than the rest. Additional research is needed for the testing of hypotheses involving effects of pet ownership with various health dimensions within population groups that are composed of different kinds of background characteristics.
Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
EISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000109
PMID: 17205113
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