心理参与比参与更重要吗? 老年人的志愿活动和主观认知功能
Daijo Shiratsuchi1, Yuto Miyake2,3, Ryota Kuratsu3
1Department of Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, 890- 8544, Japan. shiratsuchi@health.nop.kagoshima-u.ac.jp.
Aging clinical and experimental research
|November 25, 2025
概括
心理参与志愿服务,而不仅仅是参与,与老年人更好的认知健康有关. 高参与度显著降低了低认知功能的几率,这表明对大脑健康有更深层次的参与问题.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 认知科学 认知科学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 以前对老年人志愿服务和认知健康的研究显示了不一致的结果.
- 志愿者参与的质量方面一直没有得到充分的研究.
- 这项研究重点关注志愿者活动中的心理参与及其与社区老年人主观认知功能的联系.
研究的目的:
- 调查志愿者活动中的心理参与与老年人主观认知功能之间的关联.
- 为了确定志愿者参与的程度是否会影响认知健康结果.
- 区分仅仅参与与深入参与志愿者工作对认知福祉的影响.
主要方法:
- 对431名社区老年人 (平均年龄为78.2岁,90%为女性) 的横截面研究.
- 志愿者活动和心理参与 (志愿者参与; VE) 通过自我报告问卷进行评估.
- 参与者分为非志愿者,低参与度和高参与度的志愿者;主观认知功能使用Kihon检查清单项目进行评估.
主要成果:
- 60.1%的参与者报告志愿服务;一般志愿者身份和认知功能低下之间没有发现联系.
- 与非志愿者相比,高参与度的志愿者报告低认知功能的几率明显较低 (OR=0.51).
- 在低参与度的志愿者和非志愿者之间没有观察到显著的认知功能差异.
结论:
- 心理参与,特别是高参与度的志愿者活动与老年人的主观认知健康比仅仅参与更强烈.
- 研究结果表明,参与志愿服务的质量和深度对认知健康至关重要.
- 结果可以为公共卫生政策和旨在通过在晚年有意义的参与促进认知健康的计划提供信息.
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