The prospective association between frequency of contact with friends and relatives and quality of life in older adults from Central and Eastern Europe

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01834-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00127-020-01834-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01834-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00127-020-01834-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The prospective association between frequency of contact with friends and relatives and quality of life in older adults from Central and Eastern Europe

Original language description

Purpose Studies suggest that frequent contact with friends and relatives promote mental wellbeing in later life, but most evidence comes from Western populations. We investigated the prospective relationship between frequency of contact with friends and relatives and quality of life (QoL) among older Central and Eastern European (CEE) adults and whether depressive symptoms mediated the hypothesised longitudinal relationship. Methods Data from 6106 participants from the Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe (HAPIEE) study were used. Frequency of contact with friends and relatives was measured at baseline. QoL, at baseline and follow-up, was measured by the Control, Autonomy, Self-realisation, and Pleasure (CASP) 12-item scale. After assessing the prospective association using multivariable linear regression, the mediational hypothesis was tested using path analysis. Results There was a significant prospective association between frequency of contact with friends and relatives and CASP-12 score (0-36) in fully adjusted models. Per every one unit increase in frequency of contact, there was a 0.12 (95% CI 0.06, 0.17) increase in CASP-12 score at follow-up, accounting for sociodemographic, health-related and baseline QoL. Pathway results showed that 81% of the longitudinal effect of frequency of contact on QoL was mediated through depressive symptoms. Conclusions Frequent contact with friends and relatives improves QoL of older Central and Eastern European adults, partly through buffering against depressive symptoms. Interventions to improve QoL at older ages should incorporate effective management of common mental disorders such as depression.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

ISSN

0933-7954

e-ISSN

1433-9285

Volume of the periodical

55

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

1001-1010

UT code for WoS article

000515985400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85079447969