title: Social Support and Health-Related Quality of Life Among Low-Income Women: Findings from Community-Based Participatory Research.
abstract: This study examined the association between social support and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among low-income women in the southeastern region of the United States.
  
  
  
  Analysis was performed on data from a community needs assessment survey that was designed to explore social determinants of health and QoL indicators using a community-based participatory research approach. The study sample comprised 132 women aged 18 years old and older. Bivariate analysis and logistic regressions with bootstrapping were performed.
  
  
  
  Social support was predictive of physical and mental HRQoL in a contrasting fashion, suggesting a complex relation. Other social determinants of global HRQoL independent of social support status include marital and employment status, maternal age, and income. Our results also demonstrate complex interaction patterns across race, social support, and HRQoL.
  
  
  
  The linkage between social support and HRQoL may not be a simple relation, as previously assumed. Rather, it is characterized by multifaceted interactions through which social determinants of health modulate the impact of social support on HRQoL. These are new findings.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and REACHUP, Tampa, Florida.
authors.forename: Hamisu M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Salihu
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and REACHUP, Tampa, Florida.
authors.forename: Korede
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Adegoke
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and REACHUP, Tampa, Florida.
authors.forename: DeAnne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Turner
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and REACHUP, Tampa, Florida.
authors.forename: Dania
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Al Agili
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and REACHUP, Tampa, Florida.
authors.forename: Estrellita Lo
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Berry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012944:Social Support; D015144:Southeastern United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires