身体和精神健康状况解释了对年龄相关变化意识的变化
Serena Sabatini1, Shelbie Turner2, Helen Brooker3,4
1School of Medicine, Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Frontiers in psychiatry
|August 4, 2023
概括
患有更多健康状况的老年人,尤其是心理健康问题,可能会更负面地看待衰老. 关节炎和抑郁症等特定疾病增加了对与年龄相关的负面观念的脆弱性.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 健康心理学 心理健康心理学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 意识到与年龄相关的变化 (AARC) 涵盖了在衰老过程中对正面 (收益) 和负面 (损失) 变化的看法.
- 健康是影响人们对年龄相关变化的看法的一个关键领域.
- 了解健康状况和AARC之间的联系对于健康衰老研究至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查身体和精神健康状况的数量和类型以及AARC收益和AARC损失之间的横截面关联.
- 检查年龄如何调节健康状况和AARC之间的关系.
主要方法:
- 利用具有社会人口统计学变量,身体健康状况的数量和心理健康状况的数量的等级回归模型.
- 分析了特定的身体和心理健康状况类型与AARC-收益和AARC-损失的关联,使用多重回归.
- 样本包括来自英国PROTECT研究的3,786名中年和老年人 (平均年龄=67.04岁).
主要成果:
- 不管年龄,更多的身体健康状况与增加的AARC-收益和AARC-损失相关.
- 增加的心理健康状况与更高的AARC损失 (而不是收益) 有关,这种联系在老年人中更强烈.
- 特定的疾病,如轻度认知障碍,帕金森病,关节炎,癌症,骨质疏松症,抑郁症和焦虑症,与AARC损失有很小的关联.
结论:
- 更多的身体和心理健康状况可能会增加中年和老年人对衰老的负面看法的风险.
- 关节炎和抑郁症等疾病似乎特别增加了对与年龄有关的负面看法的脆弱性.
- 这些发现强调了管理多种健康状况对于促进积极的衰老体验的重要性.
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