ArticlePsychological medicine2020
Subjective wellbeing as a determinant of glycated hemoglobin in older adults: longitudinal findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
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- A systematic review of quality of life (QoL) studies using the CASP scale in older adults.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Pooled it
- Understanding the Relationship Between Weight Discrimination and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Diabetes: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases.European journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Association Between Optimism and Incident Stroke Among Stroke Survivors: Findings From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Article
- A model to forecast the two-year variation of subjective wellbeing in the elderly population.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- Links of positive affect and stress to HbA1c: a prospective longitudinal study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2023Article
- Beyond depression: correlates of well-being in young adult survivors of childhood cancers.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023Article
- Is more, better? Relationships of multiple psychological well-being facets with cardiometabolic disease.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022Article
- Enjoyment of life predicts reduced type 2 diabetes incidence over 12 years of follow-up: findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2021Article
- Spousal Involvement in Collaborative Management and Glycemic Behavior Change among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review.SAGE open nursingReview
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious research has shown an association between subjective wellbeing and incident diabetes. Less is known about the role of wellbeing for subclinical disease trajectories as captured via glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c). We aimed to explore the association between subjective wellbeing and future HbA1c levels, and the role of sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors in this association.
methodsWe used data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing for this study (N = 2161). Subjective wellbeing (CASP-19) was measured at wave 2 and HbA1c was measured 8 years later at wave 6. Participants were free from diabetes at baseline. We conducted a series of analyses to examine the extent to which the association was accounted for by a range of sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors in linear regression models.
resultsModels showed that subjective wellbeing (CASP-19 total score) was inversely associated with HbA1c 8 years later after controlling for depressive symptoms, age, sex, and baseline HbA1c (B = -0.035, 95% CI -0.060 to -0.011, p = 0.005). Inclusion of sociodemographic variables and behavioral factors in models accounted for a large proportion (17.0% and 24.5%, respectively) of the relationship between wellbeing and later HbA1c; clinical risk factors explained a smaller proportion of the relationship (3.4%).
conclusionsPoorer subjective wellbeing is associated with greater HbA1c over 8 years of follow-up and this relationship can in part be explained by sociodemographic, behavioral and clinical factors among older adults.
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