ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2013
Functional status, life-space mobility, and quality of life: a longitudinal mediation analysis.
Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04934956 (Locomotor Adaptability for Community Mobility of Older Adults), which is not on this map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Locomotor Adaptability for Community Mobility of Older Adults: The Role of Gait Automaticity
Who cites it
54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Effect of a Biobehavioral Environmental Approach on Disability Among Low-Income Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2019Trial
- Factors mediating the effects of a depression intervention on functional disability in older African Americans.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2014Trial
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- Goal Setting According to Level of Mobility Independence in Home-Visit Rehabilitation Using Canadian Occupational Performance Measure.Progress in rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Changes in activity spaces, life spaces, and exposures to physical activity-promoting environments among women with overweight or obesity.Health & place · 2025Article
- Factors Associated With Life-Space Mobility After Total Hip Arthroplasty in Females With Osteoarthritis: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Relationships between life-space mobility, physical function, and empowerment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Journal of physical therapy science · 2024Article
- Systemic inflammation in midlife is associated with late-life functional limitations.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- Life-Space Mobility: Normative Values From a National Cohort of U.S. Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Restricted life-space mobility impacts physical but not mental quality of life in older cancer survivors.Cancer medicine · 2024Article
- Bidirectional Association Between Multimorbidity and Frailty and the Role of Depression in Older Europeans.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2023Article
- Multidimensional interventions to increase life-space mobility in older adults ranging from nursing home residents to community-dwelling: a systematic scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- The Longitudinal Association Between Frailty, Cognition, and Quality of Life in Older Europeans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2023Article
- Comparison of healthspan-related indicators between adults with and without HIV infection aged 18-59 in the United States: a secondary analysis of NAHNES 1999-March 2020.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Life-space mobility and post-hospitalization outcomes among older Mexican American Medicare beneficiaries.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Predictors of life-space mobility in patients with fracture 3 months after discharge from convalescent rehabilitation ward: a prospective longitudinal study.Journal of physical therapy science · 2023Article
- Life-space, frailty, and health-related quality of life.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeUsing the Wilson-Cleary model of patient outcomes as a conceptual framework, the impact of functional status on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among older adults was examined, including tests of the mediation provided by life-space mobility.
methodsParticipants were enrollees in a population-based, longitudinal study of mobility among community-dwelling older adults. Data from four waves of the study equally spaced approximately 18 months apart (baseline, 18, 36, and 54 months) were used for participants who survived at least 1 year beyond the 54-month assessment (n = 677). Autoregressive mediation models using longitudinal data and cross-sectional mediation models using baseline data were evaluated and compared using structural equation modeling.
resultsThe longitudinal autoregressive models supported the mediating role of life-space mobility and suggested that this effect is larger for the mental component summary score than the physical component summary score of the SF-12. Evidence for a reciprocal relationship over time between functional status, measured by ADL difficulty, and life-space mobility was suggested by modification indices; these model elaborations did not alter the substantive meaning of the mediation effects. Mediated effect estimates from longitudinal autoregressive models were generally larger than those from cross-sectional models, suggesting that mediating relationships would have been missed or were potentially underestimated in cross-sectional models.
conclusionsThese results support a mediating role for life-space mobility in the relationship between functional status and HRQoL. Functional status limitations might cause diminished HRQoL in part by limiting mobility. Mobility limitations may precede functional status limitations in addition to being a consequence thereof.
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