在COVID-19大流行期间影响老年人身体功能变化的性别特异因素
Kaori Teraoka1, Taishi Tsuji2, Takafumi Monma2
1Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Japan University of Health Sciences, 2-555, Hirasuga, Satte-City, Saitama, 340-0145, Japan. k-teraoka@jhsu.ac.jp.
Scientific reports
|August 31, 2025
概括
在COVID-19大流行期间,老年人的身体功能变化因性别而异. 较低的教育程度影响男性
科学领域:
- 老年学与公共卫生
- 衰老的流行病学
- 健康的社会医学方面
背景情况:
- 由于COVID-19的流行,老年人的身体功能受到影响.
- 关于身体功能的纵向,个人层面的变化,特别是关于性别差异的研究有限.
- 了解这些变化对于在公共卫生危机中进行有针对性的干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 在COVID-19大流行期间调查与社区老年人的身体功能纵向变化相关的性别特异因素.
- 确定影响男性和女性身体功能轨迹的个体特征.
- 帮助制定针对老年人的性别敏感支持战略.
主要方法:
- 在2019年至2021年期间,对日本242名社区老年人 (111名男性,131名女性) 进行了长度研究.
- 通过定时启动和启动 (TUG) 测试和5米的习惯步行速度来评估身体功能.
- 线性混合效应模型用于分析个体特征 (教育,经济地位,活动,生活安排) 与身体功能变化之间的关联,调整为共变量.
主要成果:
- 在男性中,不到12年的教育和更高的疫情前休活动与TUG表现较差有关.
- 在女性中,独自生活与提高5米步行速度有关.
- 身体功能变化显示出由个体因素影响的显著性别特异性模式.
结论:
- 疫情期间的身体功能变化不均,并且根据性别和个体特征有很大差异.
- 针对性,性别敏感的策略对于在公共卫生紧急情况下维持老年人的身体功能至关重要.
- 这项研究强调需要个性化方法来支持不同人群的健康老龄化.
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