Internet use, social engagement and health literacy decline during ageing in a longitudinal cohort of older English adults.
Autor: | Kobayashi, Lindsay C., Wardle, Jane, von Wagner, Christian |
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ANALYSIS of covariance CHI-squared test CONFIDENCE intervals INTERVIEWING LITERACY LONGITUDINAL method QUESTIONNAIRES RESEARCH funding STATISTICAL sampling SOCIAL participation T-test (Statistics) WORLD Wide Web MULTIPLE regression analysis HEALTH literacy DATA analysis software DESCRIPTIVE statistics ODDS ratio |
Zdroj: | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health; Mar2015, Vol. 69 Issue 3, p278-283, 6p, 4 Charts |
Abstrakt: | Background Health literacy skills tend to decline during ageing, which is often attributed to age-related cognitive decline. Whether health literacy skills may be influenced by technological and social factors during ageing is unknown. Methods We investigated whether internet use and social engagement protect against health literacy decline during ageing, independent of cognitive decline. We used prospective data from 4368 men and women aged ≥52 years in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing from 2004 to 2011. Health literacy was measured at baseline (2004–2005) and at follow-up (2010–2011) using a reading comprehension test of a fictitious medicine label. The influences of consistent internet use and engagement in each of the civic, leisure and cultural activities on health literacy decline over the follow-up were estimated. Results After adjusting for cognitive decline and other covariates, consistent internet use (1379/4368; 32%) was protectively associated with health literacy decline (OR=0.77; 95% CI 0.60 to 0.99), as was consistent engagement in cultural activities (1715/4368; 39%; OR=0.73; 95% CI 0.56 to 0.93). As the number of activities engaged in increased, the likelihood of health literacy decline steadily decreased (p |
Databáze: | Complementary Index |
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