身体活动和日常流动性是否独立地与老年人的生活质量有关?
Jane Elliott1,2, Judith Green3,2
1International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK.
Aging and health research
|September 23, 2024
概括
身体活动和日常流动性是影响老年人的生活质量 (QoL) 的不同因素. 保持两者对于更好的QOL至关重要,强调需要在体育活动倡议之外提供更广泛的移动性支持.
科学领域:
- 老年学是一门学科.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 身体活动和日常流动性是相关的,但在不同学科中研究的不同概念.
- 英语长度老龄化研究 (ELSA) 提供了数据来研究这些结构在老年人群中.
- 了解身体活动和流动性对生活质量的独立和联合影响,对于健康老龄化至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 确定体育活动和日常流动是否在年轻人 (60-69岁) 和老年人 (>=70) 年龄组以及男性和女性中是单独的构造.
- 使用ELSA变量开发体育活动和日常活动的综合测量方法.
- 评估身体活动和日常流动性与生活质量 (QoL) 的独立关联.
主要方法:
- "体力活动"和"日常移动"的综合指标来自ELSA变量,包含客观数据和自我报告数据.
- 使用CASP-19尺度衡量生活质量.
- 使用第9波ELSA数据 (2018-2020) 进行了因子分析和回归分析,以探索构造及其与QoL的关联.
主要成果:
- 因子分析证实身体活动和日常活动的流动性是离散的构造,解释了36%的差异,在各个年龄段和性别中一致.
- 回归分析显示,较低的身体活动和日常活动的低水平独立地与较低的QoL相关.
- 即使在控制了诸如年龄等上下文变量之后,这些关联仍然很重要.
结论:
- 身体活动和日常流动性是老年人生活质量的明显但重要的决定因素.
- 一个全面的社会老龄化生活质量模型应该考虑个人身体活动水平和更广泛的移动性决定因素.
- 旨在改善老年人生活质量的干预措施应解决身体活动和使日常流动成为可能的环境/社会因素.
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