The time-varying effects of neighbourhood social fragmentation on trajectories of mental health-related quality of life /
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2019
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Lekkas, Panauiotis
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Daniel, Mark
Paquet, Catherine
Paquet, Catherine
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thesis
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This thesis assesses if the evolution of neighbourhood-level 'social fragmentation' (SF) affects the development of 'mental health-related quality of life' (MHRQoL). Notions of 'time' and the 'lifecourse perspective' informed this work, as did a systematic review of neighbourhood-level applications of finite mixture models. A longitudinal neighbourhood database was created for the metro region of Adelaide, Australia, and latent transition analysis was then used to model the developmental profile of SF from 2001-to-2011 where neighbourhoods were proxied by 'suburbs', and the measurement of SF used nine census indicators. Finally, latent growth models were applied to examine the conditional time-varying effects of exposure to SF-classes on 10-year person-level trajectories of MHRQoL. To strengthen inference, sensitivity analyses were enacted, including a negative control outcome analysis.
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University of South Australia. School of Health Sciences.
School of Health Sciences.
School of Health Sciences.
Dissertation Note
Thesis (PhD(Public Health))--University of South Australia, 2019.
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Copyright 2019 Peter Lekkas.
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1 ethesis (xi, 280 pages) :
illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), charts (some colour)
Includes bibliographical references.
illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour), charts (some colour)
Includes bibliographical references.
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