Associations of objective versus subjective social isolation with sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue in community-dwelling older adults

Autor: Carmen Carrillo, Teresa E. Seeman, Hanbyul Choi, Joshua Hyong-Jin Cho, Richard G. Olmstead, Michael R. Irwin
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Sleep Wake Disorders
Aging
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
Medical and Health Sciences
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Clinical Research
Surveys and Questionnaires
Behavioral and Social Science
medicine
80 and over
Humans
Social isolation
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Fatigue
older adults
Aged
Aged
80 and over

Sleep disorder
030214 geriatrics
business.industry
Depression
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
sleep disturbance
Mental health
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Mental Health
Good Health and Well Being
Social Isolation
Studies in Human Society
Geriatrics
Female
Independent Living
Geriatrics and Gerontology
Pshychiatric Mental Health
medicine.symptom
business
Sleep Research
Gerontology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Clinical psychology
Zdroj: Aging & mental health, vol 23, iss 9
Aging Ment Health
Popis: Objective: Older adults are at higher risk of experiencing social isolation, which has been linked to impaired physical and mental health. The link between social isolation and health might be due to objective deprivation of social network and/or subjective experience of loneliness. This community-based cross-sectional study examined whether the associations between social isolation and behavioral symptoms including sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue are mostly explained by its subjective component. Methods: Randomly selected 2541 community-dwelling individuals in Los Angeles aged ≥60 years were telephone-interviewed regarding their objective and subjective social isolation (respectively social network size and loneliness), sleep disturbance, depression, and fatigue. Results: When objective and subjective social isolation were separately included in multivariate regression models, both were significantly associated with behavioral symptoms. However, once they were simultaneously included in the same multivariate models, while subjective social isolation remained strongly associated (adjusted beta 0.24 for sleep disturbance [P
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