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Table 2 Characteristics of the articles in the review

From: How does unemployment affect self-assessed health? A systematic review focusing on subgroup effects

Characteristic (n = 41 articles)

n

%

  

Continent of study

    

  Asia (China)

1

2.4

  

  Australia

3

7.3

  

  Europea

33

80

  

  North Americab

3

7.3

  

  South America (Brazil)

1

2.4

  

Study design

    

  Cross-sectional

24

59

  

  Longitudinal

17

41

  

Health measure c

    

  Self-rated health

19

46

  

  General Health Questionnaire

9

22

  

  Depression scales

7

17

  

  Other health scalesd

20

49

  
   

Stratified analysis

Part of analysis

Factors

  

n

%

n

%

  Gendere

38

93

25

66

19

50

  Agef

37

90

11

30

31

84

  Education level

30

73

5

17

28

93

  Marital status

23

56

2

8.7

22

96

  Household income

13

32

2

17

12

92

  Geographic location

11

27

8

73

7

64

  Social network/social support

10

24

4

40

8

80

  Children at home

8

20

2

25

7

87

  Cash margin/financial strain

8

20

2

25

6

75

  Health aspectsg

8

20

1

12

8

100

  Socio-economic status

8

20

4

50

5

62

  Living conditions and poverty

7

17

1

14

7

100

  Ethnicity

6

15

2

33

6

100

  Smoking

6

15

-

0

6

100

  High alcoholic intake

5

12

1

0

5

100

  Reason for unemployment

4

10

4

100

-

0

  Local/regional unemployment rates

3

7.3

1

33

3

100

  Overweight

3

7.3

-

0

3

100

  Physical activity

3

7.3

-

0

3

100

Statistical method h

      

  Binary logistic regression

21

51

    

  Other regression techniques

18

44

    

  ANOVA/ANCOVA

3

7.3

    

  Propensity scores

1

2.4

    

  Instrumental variables

1

2.4

    

  Prevalence ratios

1

2.4

    
  1. aBelgium (n = 1), Croatia (n = 1), Finland (n = 2), Germany (n = 2), Great Britain (n = 7), Norway (n = 1), Poland (n = 1), Slovakia (n = 1), Spain (n = 2), Sweden (n = 8), The Netherlands (n = 1), and collaborative studies between two or more European countries (n = 6).
  2. bCanada (n = 1) and USA (n = 2).
  3. cTen studies included two health measurements and two studies included three health measurements.
  4. dThree studies included two health measurements categorized as “other health scales” e One study only with men, one with only women, and one for which the statistical analysis method did not allow for using gender as a variable.
  5. fThree studies included individuals of the same age and the fourth had similar ages gIncluding previous health as well as current health-related issues such as any chronic medical condition or long-standing illness.
  6. hFour studies presented results for two of the categories