Social networks and loneliness in people with Alzheimer's dementia
| Autor: | Sara Balouch, Naji Tabet, Henglien Lisa Chen, Enas Rifaat |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Disease Social Networking 03 medical and health sciences Cognition 0302 clinical medicine Alzheimer Disease Risk Factors medicine Humans Dementia Aged media_common Aged 80 and over Mini–Mental State Examination 030214 geriatrics medicine.diagnostic_test Social network business.industry Loneliness medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Friendship Cross-Sectional Studies Regression Analysis Female Geriatrics and Gerontology medicine.symptom Cognition Disorders Psychology business Psychopathology Clinical psychology |
| ISSN: | 0885-6230 |
| Popis: | Objectives\ud Modifiable lifestyle risk factors are of great interest in the prevention and management of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Loneliness and social networks may influence onset of AD, but little is known about this relationship in people with AD. The current study aimed to explore the relationship between loneliness and social networks (social measures) and cognitive and psychopathology decline (AD outcomes) in people with AD.\ud \ud Methods\ud Ninety‐three participants with mild‐moderate AD were recruited from memory clinics, in a cross‐sectional study. Social networks (measured by the Lubben Social Network Scale), feelings of loneliness (measured by De Jong Loneliness Scale), cognition (measured by the Standardized Mini Mental State Examination) and psychopathology (measured by the Neuropsychiatric Inventory) were assessed in an interview setting. Two multiple regressions with Bootstrap were conducted on cognition and psychopathology as outcome variables. Family and Friends subsets of social networks and loneliness were entered as predictors and age, gender and depression as covariates.\ud \ud Results\ud The friendship subset of social networks was significantly related to cognition (independent of age, gender, depression, loneliness and family subset of social network): B = .284, p = .01. Neither loneliness nor social networks predicted psychopathology (ps > .05).\ud \ud Conclusions\ud Maintaining or developing a close friendship network could be beneficial for cognition in people with AD. Alternatively, greater dementia severity may lead to fewer friends. More research on the direction of this relationship in people with AD is needed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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