ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Community-Level Participation in Volunteer Groups and Individual Depressive Symptoms in Japanese Older People: A Three-Year Longitudinal Multilevel Analysis Using JAGES Data.
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- Productive engagement patterns and their association with life satisfaction among elderly sandwich generation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Incidence of depressive symptoms and their associations with lifestyle and social support networks among community-dwelling older adults: a sex-stratified longitudinal study using the JAGES study.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2025Article
- Volunteering and Its Association with Depression, Loneliness, and Lifestyle of Older Adults: Insights from a Japanese Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Employment status and depressive symptoms in taiwanese older adults: an 11-year prospective cohort study.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Factors associated with the perceived need for assistance from voluntary services in home-based older adults in Chinese urban areas: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- An analysis of the influencing factors of depression in older adults under the home care model.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Frailty and social participation in older citizens in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of general and family medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe current study aimed to investigate the contextual effect of volunteer group participation on subsequent depressive symptoms in older people.
methodsWe analyzed the longitudinal data of 37,552 people aged 65 years and older in 24 municipalities surveyed in the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study. Volunteer group participation of older people was assessed in 2013 by one question and depressive symptoms were assessed by the Geriatric Depression Scale 15 in 2016. To investigate a contextual effect, we aggregated individual-level volunteer group participation by each residence area as a community-level independent variable. We conducted a two-level multilevel Poisson regression analysis using the Random Intercepts and Fixed Slopes Model.
resultsThe average proportion of community-level volunteer group participation was 10.6%. The results of the Poisson regression analysis showed that community-level volunteer group participation reduced the risk for the onset of depressive symptoms by 13% with a 10 percentage point increase in participation, after adjusting for sex, age, population density, total annual sunshine hours and annual rainfall (incident rate ratio, 0.87; 95% confidence interval, 0.78-0.98).
conclusionsOlder people living in areas with higher volunteer group participation had a lower risk of developing depressive symptoms regardless of whether or not they participated in a volunteer group.
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