ArticleSSM - population health2021
A longitudinal study on social support, social participation, and older Europeans' Quality of life.
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36 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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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
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- Relation of Social Participation Restrictions with Worsening Quality of Life in Japanese Patients with Behçet's Disease: The 36-item Short Form Survey.JMA journal · 2025Article
- Normative values to assess functional fitness in older adults in a region of Chile.Frontiers in aging · 2025Article
- The relationship between social support and depression among older adults with hypertension in urban communities: mediating effects of coping styles.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Characteristics of Informal Caregivers and Social Participation of People With Dementia.The Gerontologist · 2024Article
- The Effect of Long-Term (Im)balance of Giving Versus Receiving Support With Nonrelatives on Subjective Well-Being Among Home-Dwelling Older People.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
The association between quality of life (QoL) and social relationships is well established. This paper further analyses whether and how participation in social activities as well as providing and receiving social support, independently, are associated with QoL among the older population in 16 European countries. QoL was measured using the CASP-12 scale. The baseline data came from Wave 6 and the outcome from Wave 7 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The associations of interest were analysed using multivariable linear regression. The effect of possible non-ignorable dropout was tested. Then, doubly robust estimation and sensitivity analyses for unobserved confounding were performed to evaluate the possible causal interpretation of the associations found. Our findings show that participation in at least one of the socially productive activities was positively associated with QoL at two-year follow-up (Average Causal Effect, ACE: 0.474; 95%CI: 0.361, 0.587). The association was stronger among women, people aged 75+, and those in the Southern European region. Providing social support had a positive association with QoL, but only among people aged 75+ (ACE: 0.410; 95%CI: 0.031, 0.789). Conversely, receiving social support had a negative association (ACE: -0.321; 95%CI: -0.448, -0.195) with QoL, especially for men, people aged 75+, and those in Eastern European countries. Sensitivity analyses for unobserved confounders showed that the associations found cannot be attributed to causal effects.
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