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    Title: Social participation and survival in widowed persons: Results of the Taiwan longitudinal study on aging
    Authors: Hsiao, YH;Lee, MC;Yeh, CJ;Tai, CJ;Lee, SS
    Contributors: Institute of Population Health Sciences
    Abstract: It has been considered that widowed persons have a higher risk of death. This study in-tended to explore whether social participation could improve this trend. A longitudinal study da-tabase was constructed to explore the trend of survival and its change with social participation in widowed persons. The Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA), based on four consecutive waves of longitudinal follow-up data in 1999, 2003, 2007, and 2011 was linked with the National Death Registry from 1999 through 2012. In total, there were 1417 widowed persons and 4500 nonwidowed persons included in this study, excluding divorced and never-married people. The survival trend analysis was carried out with social participation as the main predictive factor stratified for comparative analysis. Our results showed that the widowed were older than the nonwidowed, were female-dominant, had a lower education level, were more economically stressed, and were less likely to engage in regular exercise, and thus showed generally poorer health; for example, being more vulnerable to having chronic diseases, disability with the Activities of Daily Living (ADL), cognitive impairment with the Short Portable Mental State Questionnaire (SPMSQ), and depression with The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D). The death risk of the widowed was significantly higher than that of the nonwidowed, but the death trend for those with social participation was significantly lower than that of their counterparts in both the widowed and nonwidowed. After matching with gender and age for widowed persons, the widowed with social participation had a significantly lower risk of death (adjusted hazard ratio (HR), 0.83; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.71–0.98) compared to the widowed without social participation. It was con-cluded that social participation can improve the death risk for the widowed, and it is worthily included in health promotion plans and social welfare services for widowed persons.
    Date: 2021-10-19
    Relation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021 Oct 19;18(20):Article number 10974.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010974
    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000714945700001
    Cited Times(Scopus): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85117213763
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