Hostile Hartlepool and genteel Guildford: hostility and health in 10 English towns
Hostile Hartlepool and genteel Guildford: hostility and health in 10 English towns
Research from the USA suggests that cities with high mortality rates have high levels of hostility. Our aim was to replicate this research in English towns. A telephone questionnaire, based on the Cook-Medley hostility scale, was administered to random samples of adults in 10 English towns: five with high standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and five with low SMRs. The point estimate for the age-sex-weighted mean hostility score of high SMR towns was higher than that of low SMR towns (mean difference 0.2). However, the 95% confidence interval on the estimate included no difference between the two groups (-0.3-0.8). Our study does not confirm beyond doubt the findings of earlier research in the USA.
adults, scale, England, questionnaire, sex distribution, age distribution, middle aged, male, mortality, confidence intervals, adult, female, health, telephone, aged, hostility, humans, questionnaires, research, smoking
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Kirkbride, H.A.
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Jessop, E.G.
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Peacock, J.L.
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2003
Kirkbride, H.A.
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Jessop, E.G.
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Peacock, J.L.
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Kirkbride, H.A., Jessop, E.G. and Peacock, J.L.
(2003)
Hostile Hartlepool and genteel Guildford: hostility and health in 10 English towns.
Public Health, 117 (5), .
(doi:10.1016/S0033-3506(03)00101-X).
Abstract
Research from the USA suggests that cities with high mortality rates have high levels of hostility. Our aim was to replicate this research in English towns. A telephone questionnaire, based on the Cook-Medley hostility scale, was administered to random samples of adults in 10 English towns: five with high standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and five with low SMRs. The point estimate for the age-sex-weighted mean hostility score of high SMR towns was higher than that of low SMR towns (mean difference 0.2). However, the 95% confidence interval on the estimate included no difference between the two groups (-0.3-0.8). Our study does not confirm beyond doubt the findings of earlier research in the USA.
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adults, scale, England, questionnaire, sex distribution, age distribution, middle aged, male, mortality, confidence intervals, adult, female, health, telephone, aged, hostility, humans, questionnaires, research, smoking
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