Konsta Teppo, K E Juhani Airaksinen, Olli Halminen, Jussi Jaakkola, Miika Linna, Jari Haukka, Jukka Putaala, Pirjo Mustonen, Janne Kinnunen, Juha Hartikainen, Mika Lehto
{"title":"Rural-urban and geographical differences in prognosis of atrial fibrillation in Finland: a nationwide cohort study.","authors":"Konsta Teppo, K E Juhani Airaksinen, Olli Halminen, Jussi Jaakkola, Miika Linna, Jari Haukka, Jukka Putaala, Pirjo Mustonen, Janne Kinnunen, Juha Hartikainen, Mika Lehto","doi":"10.1177/14034948231189918","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948231189918","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Rural-urban disparities have been reported in the outcomes of cardiovascular diseases. We assessed whether rural-urban or other geographical disparities exist in the risk of ischemic stroke (IS) and death in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Finland.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The registry-based FinACAF cohort study covers all patients with AF from all levels of care in Finland from 2007 to 2018. Patients were divided into rural-urban categories and into hospital districts (HDs) based on their municipality of residence.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 222,051 patients (50.1% female; mean age 72.8 years; mean follow-up 3.9 years) with new-onset AF, of whom 15,567 (7.0%) patients suffered IS and 72,565 (32.7%) died during follow-up. The crude IS rate was similar between rural and urban areas, whereas the mortality rate was lower in urban areas (incidence rate ratios (IRRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) 0.97 (0.93-1.00) and 0.92 (0.91-0.93), respectively). However, after adjustments, urban residence was associated with slightly higher IS and mortality rates (IRRs with 95% CIs 1.05 (1.01-1.08) and 1.06 (1.04-1.07), respectively). The highest crude IS rate was in the East Savo HD and the lowest in Åland, whereas the highest crude mortality rate was in the Länsi-Pohja HD and the lowest in the North Ostrobothnia HD (IRRs with 95% CIs compared to Helsinki and Uusimaa HD for IS 1.46 (1.28-1.67) and 0.79 (0.62-1.01), and mortality 1.24 (1.16-1.32) and 0.97 (0.93-1.00), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>Rural-urban differences in prognosis of AF in Finland appear minimal, whereas considerable disparities exist between HDs</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"785-792"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487984/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9982694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Clausen, Jesper Pihl-Thingvad, Ebbe Villadsen, Lars L Andersen
{"title":"Acts of offensive behaviour and risk of disability pension in Danish female eldercare workers: prospective cohort with 11-year register follow-up.","authors":"Thomas Clausen, Jesper Pihl-Thingvad, Ebbe Villadsen, Lars L Andersen","doi":"10.1177/14034948231185942","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948231185942","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To investigate whether acts of offensive behaviour (threats, violence, workplace bullying and sexual harassment) in the workplace and type of perpetrator (internal or external to the workplace) of the offensive behaviours predicted risk of disability pension in Danish eldercare workers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We merged survey responses from 8731 female eldercare workers with a national register on social transfer payments (Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalisation (DREAM)), including all types of disability benefits. Using Cox proportional hazards models, we investigated the prospective association between self-reported exposures at baseline and the risk of receiving disability pension (any type of disability benefit payment) during 11 years of follow-up, while adjusting for potential confounders.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Self-reported exposure to threats (hazard ratio (HR) 1.14; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.00-1.32), violence (HR 1.16; 95% CI 1.00-1.35) and bullying (HR 1.44; 95% CI 1.22-1.71) predicted increased risk of disability pension during follow-up, when adjusted for age and educational attainment. When further adjusted for psychosocial working conditions only bullying remained a statistically significant (HR 1.39; 95% CI 1.16-1.67) predictor of disability pension. The results indicated no elevated risk for participants reporting sexual harassment. Moreover, we observed stronger associations between self-reported exposure to threats, violence and workplace bullying and risk of disability pension when the perpetrator was internal to the workplace (i.e. colleagues, managers and/or subordinates), than when the perpetrator was reported to be external to the workplace (i.e. service users, and/or relatives of service users).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>\u0000 <b>Results indicate that prevention of work-related exposure to threats, violence and workplace bullying may contribute to reduce involuntary early retirement in female eldercare workers.</b>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"793-799"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10015099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dag Hofoss, Liv Grøtvedt, Else K Grøholt, Jorun Ramm, Elin S Lunde, Astri Syse
{"title":"Does who you live with matter for your health? The influence of partners' socioeconomic characteristics on self-rated health in Norway.","authors":"Dag Hofoss, Liv Grøtvedt, Else K Grøholt, Jorun Ramm, Elin S Lunde, Astri Syse","doi":"10.1177/14034948231197453","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948231197453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Studies of the association between self-rated health and persons' income and education have almost invariably shown that people with higher education and incomes report better health. Less is known of the influence of household members' socioeconomic characteristics on individuals' health. This study thus aimed to assess the extent to which the socioeconomic characteristics of partners may contribute to explaining the variation in the respondents' self-rated health (SRH).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using an observational design, we analysed cross-sectional Norwegian survey data on SRH (2015 and 2019), linked to register data on education and income for respondents (<i>N</i> = 7082) and their opposite-sex coresident spouse or partner. We employed logistic regression models to assess the associations between respondents' SRH and the relative income and education of their partner. Average marginal effects were calculated to enable cross-model comparisons.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Net of individual characteristics, having a higher-educated partner was positively associated with SRH for both male (OR = 1.56) and female (OR = 1.36) respondents. Having a partner with an above median income (by age and sex) was positively associated with SRH for female (OR = 1.29) respondents only. For education, the positive SRH associations were roughly similar for respondents and partners. For income, the associations were more pronounced for respondents than partners.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>Our findings suggest that health is affected by the resources (or lack thereof) in one's immediate networks. To reduce social inequalities in health, health personnel might customise interactions to account for household resources. Such knowledge could also be used in health-promoting activities to enhance participation and health competency</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"819-828"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10286240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anthony Medford, Vegard Skirbekk, Bjørn Heine Strand
{"title":"Trends in ages at death of Norwegian centenarians: the 1870-1904 birth cohorts.","authors":"Anthony Medford, Vegard Skirbekk, Bjørn Heine Strand","doi":"10.1177/14034948231206529","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948231206529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With rapidly rising life expectancy and ageing populations, interest has grown in the survival patterns and ages at death at the highest ages. In Scandinavia, the accumulation of very old population segments coupled with long-established, high-quality population registers permit meaningful analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study is based on individual level data from extinct Norwegian birth cohorts using data obtained from the Norwegian Civil Register System. We assess trends in the ages at death of centenarians in Norway for cohorts born between 1870 and 1904 for evidence of any secular increase using quantile regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We observed that there is no upward trend in centenarian lifespans, in line with recent observations in Sweden, but contrary to the upward trend at the very highest percentiles as observed in Denmark.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>The available evidence suggests that the stagnation in centenarian lifespans may be partly due to the failure to find ways of dealing with neurodegenerative diseases</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"878-883"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71415005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vilde Bergstad Larsen, Ketil Størdal, Kjetil Telle, Fredrik Methi, Karin Magnusson
{"title":"Health care use after severe respiratory tract infections in children aged 0 to 5 years.","authors":"Vilde Bergstad Larsen, Ketil Størdal, Kjetil Telle, Fredrik Methi, Karin Magnusson","doi":"10.1177/14034948231197250","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948231197250","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To explore whether children in specialist care with COVID-19 have increased post-discharge health care use when compared with children in specialist care with 1) respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, and 2) other respiratory tract infections (RTIs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In 34,214 children aged 1 month to 5 years who were registered as having one or more hospital visit (outpatient or inpatient) with a diagnosis of COVID-19 (<i>N</i> = 128), RSV infection (<i>N</i> = 4,009), or other RTIs (<i>N</i> = 34,458) from 2017 to 2021, we used a difference-in-differences study design to investigate individual all-cause primary and specialist health care use from 12 weeks prior to 12 weeks after the hospital visit, stratified by infants (1 to 11 months) and children (1 to 5 years).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found a slight increase in primary health care use in the first 4 weeks after the hospital visit for infants with COVID-19 when compared with infants with RSV infection (6 per 10,000; 95% CI [2, 13], a 0.52% relative increase). For infants diagnosed with COVID-19, we found a similar post-visit increase in inpatients when compared with infants with RSV infection, which lasted for 12 weeks.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>Our findings imply a slightly increased health care use among infants after a hospital visit for COVID-19 than among infants with other RTIs, the potential etiological mechanisms of which deserve future clinical research. Severe COVID-19 in young children will not represent any markedly increased burden on the health services</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"810-818"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10214411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annina Ropponen, Emma Pettersson, Jurgita Narusyte, Pia Svedberg
{"title":"Sequences of sickness absence, disability pension and unemployment four years before and five years after musculoskeletal diagnosis among Swedish twins.","authors":"Annina Ropponen, Emma Pettersson, Jurgita Narusyte, Pia Svedberg","doi":"10.1177/14034948241284041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241284041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate sustainable working life via identification of time-related sequences of sickness absence (SA), disability pension (DP) and unemployment four years before and five years after the first musculoskeletal diagnosis in a Swedish twin cohort. Other aims were to account for familial confounding and to examine the associations between sequences and sociodemographic characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Among 28,474 Swedish twins, the patterns of interruptions of working life four years before the first M00-M99 diagnosis (MSD) and five years after MSD diagnosis were investigated with a sequence analysis in a seven-element state space consisting of sustainable working life, unemployment >90 days, moderate SA/DP (30-179 days), almost full year of SA/DP (180-365 days), full year of SA/DP (⩾ 365 days), death, and old-age pension.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The six-cluster solution had the best fit to the data. Five clusters had varying patterns of interruptions of sustainable working life (Clusters 2-6, <i>n</i> = 537-1949 with SA/DP, unemployment, but also accounting death and old-age pension) compared with the largest cluster with primarily sustainable working life (<i>n</i> = 23,316). Age, sex and familial factors affected the likelihood of belonging to the clusters with SA/DP.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>\u0000 <b>Most Swedish twins with or without MSD diagnosis have a sustainable working life, although MSD was both prevalent and a strong risk factor for belonging to the clusters with SA/DP. Thus, early prevention of MSD and prevention of recurrent or long sickness absences due to any cause would be merited while paying special attention to women also.</b>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"14034948241284041"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142559215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eeva-Liisa RØssell, Mette Lise Lousdal, Jakob H Viuff, Henrik StØvring
{"title":"Evaluating mammography screening in observational cohort designs: the importance of avoiding lead time bias.","authors":"Eeva-Liisa RØssell, Mette Lise Lousdal, Jakob H Viuff, Henrik StØvring","doi":"10.1177/14034948241288136","DOIUrl":"10.1177/14034948241288136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To investigate the potential lead time bias of the evaluation model (extended follow-up for women diagnosed with breast cancer) used to evaluate mammography screening in a recent Danish study. This model was compared with two traditional models.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We retrieved data on women diagnosed with breast cancer in each county of Norway from 1986 to 2016. In a population-based open cohort study, the change in incidence-based mortality (IBM) was estimated by relative rate ratios comparing a screening period with a historical period for each of three age groups: women eligible for screening and younger and older ineligible women. We applied the evaluation model, and for comparison two traditional IBM models from a recent Norwegian study: one without extended follow-up and no possibility of lead time bias and one with extended follow-up irrespective of diagnosis, possibly diluting any screening effect.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The evaluation model estimated an extra 11% reduction in breast cancer mortality among the screening eligible relative to ineligible women. However, this result could largely be ascribed to lead time bias inflated by overdiagnosis and a decreasing mortality from other causes among eligible women. A reduction in breast cancer mortality was observed for both eligible and younger and older ineligible women across models, and relative rate ratios close to 1 were obtained using the two traditional IBM models, indicating no effect of screening on breast cancer mortality.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>Two models without lead time bias found no reduction in breast cancer mortality, whereas the evaluation model estimated a reduction attributable to lead time bias</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"14034948241288136"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trajectories of depressive symptoms in early to mid-adolescence: associations with school pedagogical and social climate.","authors":"Cristian Bortes","doi":"10.1177/14034948241277048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241277048","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Adolescence is a critical period for mental health development, yet research exploring how contextual factors influence the development of depressive symptoms remains limited. This study explored trajectories of depressive symptoms during early to mid-adolescence and their association with various aspects of school climate.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study sample comprised 3671, 7th-grade students (aged 12-13 years) from 101 schools across Sweden, followed longitudinally across three time points spanning grades 7, 8 and 9. Depressive symptom trajectories were identified using latent class growth modelling. The Pedagogical and Social Climate questionnaire assessed school climate, and multinomial logistic regression was employed to predict trajectory membership based on sociodemographic and school climate factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Four distinct developmental patterns of depressive symptoms emerged: 'Sustained low symptoms' (76.7%), 'Low-increasing' (10.9%), 'Sustained high symptoms' (7.9%), and 'High-decreasing' (4.5%). Gender, parental education and six specific school climate factors, out of the total 19 examined, significantly distinguished these trajectory classes. Positive teacher expectations and strong principal involvement were associated with more favourable trajectories, whereas teaching activities, teacher support and communication between school and home were associated with less favourable trajectories, suggesting a nuanced understanding of their relationship with depressive symptom trajectories.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>\u0000 <b>Few school factors were found to be relevant to depressive symptoms, highlighting the importance of considering external factors beyond the school environment in supporting adolescents during this developmental stage. Although the findings are multifaceted, it is primarily positive interpersonal relationships, especially through teacher expectations, that stand out as significant factors in promoting youth mental health.</b>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"14034948241277048"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susanne F Jørgensen, Mathilde L Nielsen, Sisse H Njor
{"title":"Adherence to recommended follow-up in opportunistic versus non-opportunistic cervical screening: a registry-based cohort study from Denmark.","authors":"Susanne F Jørgensen, Mathilde L Nielsen, Sisse H Njor","doi":"10.1177/14034948241289273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241289273","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Organised cervical screening programmes often allow for opportunistic screening. Previous studies have shown that adherence to follow-up protocols after cervical screening is poor. This study aims to investigate if non-adherence to recommended screening intervals - that is, opportunistic screening, is associated with adherence to follow-up after non-negative cervical screening.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using national registries we included 42,399 Danish women with a non-negative screening result from 2015 to 2017. Non-adherence was divided into insufficient and excessive follow-up. We calculated relative risks (RRs) of adherence to follow-up among different groups of opportunistically screened women, representing both too frequent and delayed screening participation, compared with non-opportunistically screened women.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared with non-opportunistically screened women, opportunistically screened women who were delayed 1-3 years on their screening schedule had a higher risk of no follow-up (RR 1.99) and insufficient follow-up (RR 1.10). Women who were delayed 3-7 years on their screening also had a higher risk of no follow-up (RR 1.92). Women who attended screening up to 6 months too early had a higher risk of insufficient follow-up (RR 1.08) as well as excessive follow-up (RR 1.39). Finally, women screened more than 6 months too early had a higher risk of all deviations, but most pronounced was the risk of excessive follow-up (RR 1.67).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong><b>We found a higher risk of insufficient follow-up among women delayed in their screening schedule, and a higher risk of excessive follow-up among those with frequent screening. Screening participation behaviour seems to transfer to follow-up adherence. This underscores the important role of general practitioners in acting as gatekeepers in cervical screening follow-up</b>.</p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"14034948241289273"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Piia T Jallinoja, Eetu V Vento, Esa T Väliverronen
{"title":"Trust in scientific institutions and experts during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland.","authors":"Piia T Jallinoja, Eetu V Vento, Esa T Väliverronen","doi":"10.1177/14034948241289633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948241289633","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>To explore variations in trust in science and scientific institutions in Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the factors influencing trust in experts of a key institution in the management of the pandemic, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). These results are contrasted with trust in the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Five surveys were conducted between April 2020 and March 2022 (<i>n</i>=5448). The changes were tested with the chi-square test. Predictors of trust in THL and the ministry was examined with binary logistic regression.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Trust in science and key scientific institutions remained consistently high throughout this period. In the early pandemic, trust in the ministry declined. The most significant explanatory factors for trust in THL and the ministry were being a supporter of some other party than the right-wing Finns Party and belonging to the age groups over 50 years.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>\u0000 <b>Our findings indicate that the pandemic, marked by unpredictability, did not weaken trust in science and THL, whereas trust in the ministry responsible for managing the pandemic and university experts weakened. In increasingly politically polarised societies, the impact of political sentiments on health-related perceptions and choices should be analysed more in future public health studies.</b>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":49568,"journal":{"name":"Scandinavian Journal of Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"14034948241289633"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142511672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}