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Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2017
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Title
Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4561-8
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Authors

Jerf W. K. Yeung, Zhuoni Zhang, Tae Yeun Kim

Abstract

Although the health benefits of volunteering have been well documented, no research has examined its cumulative effects according to other-oriented and self-oriented volunteering on multiple health outcomes in the general adult public. This study examined other-oriented and self-oriented volunteering in cumulative contribution to health outcomes (mental and physical health, life satisfaction, social well-being and depression). Data were drawn from the Survey of Texas Adults 2004, which contains a statewide population-based sample of adults (n = 1504). Multivariate linear regression and Wald test of parameters equivalence constraint were used to test the relationships. Both forms of volunteering were significantly related to better health outcomes (odds ratios = 3.66% to 11.11%), except the effect of self-oriented volunteering on depression. Other-oriented volunteering was found to have better health benefits than did self-volunteering. Volunteering should be promoted by public health, education and policy practitioners as a kind of healthy lifestyle, especially for the social subgroups of elders, ethnic minorities, those with little education, single people, and unemployed people, who generally have poorer health and less participation in volunteering.

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Unknown 229 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 33 14%
Student > Bachelor 32 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 8%
Researcher 11 5%
Other 36 16%
Unknown 78 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 32 14%
Psychology 27 12%
Social Sciences 24 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 3%
Other 33 14%
Unknown 89 39%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 973. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 February 2024.
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#16,566
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#13
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#278
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#2
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