骑自行车上下班是否会降低患精神疾病的风险? 使用距离到最近的循环路径的仪器变量分析
Laurie Berrie1,2, Zhiqiang Feng1,2, David Rice3
1School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
International journal of epidemiology
|January 14, 2024
概括
自行车上下班因果性地降低了精神疾病的健康风险. 这项研究发现,自行车上下班族的心理健康处方平均减少了15.1%,支持积极的旅行推广.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 运输科学 运输科学
背景情况:
- 以前的研究将骑自行车与更好的精神健康联系起来,但通常依赖于自我报告的数据,缺乏因果证据.
- 横截面研究受到小样本大小,自我报告的健康状况以及遗漏变量和反向因果关系等潜在偏差的限制.
- 本研究通过采用仪器变量方法和客观的行政健康数据来解决这些局限性.
研究的目的:
- 调查自行车通勤与精神疾病风险之间的因果关系.
- 为了确定骑自行车上班是否会降低需要心理健康处方的可能性.
- 提供支持积极旅行倡议的证据.
主要方法:
- 将苏格兰人口普查数据与爱丁堡和格拉斯哥的国民健康服务 (NHS) 处方记录联系起来.
- 使用公路距离到最近的自行车道作为自行车通勤的仪器变量.
- 采用双变量试验模型来分析自行车通勤和心理健康处方之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 这项研究包括378,253名年龄在16-74岁之间的通勤者.
- 与非骑自行车的人 (14%) 相比,骑自行车的人的精神健康处方率较低 (9%).
- 自行车上下班的人在5年内,精神健康处方 (抗抑郁药/抗焦虑药) 估计平均减少了15.1%.
结论:
- 骑自行车上下班表明与减少精神疾病健康的因果关系.
- 调查结果支持促进积极旅行的政策,特别是在较短的通勤距离.
- 鼓励人们转向骑自行车可能会带来显著的公共健康益处.
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