受衰老自我认知影响的预防性健康行为。
Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging.
作者信息
Levy Becca R, Myers Lindsey M
机构信息
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA.
出版信息
Prev Med. 2004 Sep;39(3):625-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2004.02.029.
BACKGROUND
Research has found that the elderly are the age group that is the least likely to engage in preventive health behaviors, even though these behaviors continue to benefit individuals throughout the life span. We investigated for the first time whether an age-specific factor, older individuals' beliefs about their own aging, predicts their likelihood of engaging in preventive health behaviors over time.
METHODS
We conducted multivariate linear regression to test the predictive value of aging self-perceptions on the preventive health behaviors of 241 individuals, who participated in the Ohio Longitudinal Study of Aging and Retirement (OLSAR) aged 50-80 years old. The preventive health behaviors included eating a balanced diet, exercising, and following directions for taking prescribed medications.
RESULTS
Individuals with more positive self-perceptions of aging tended to practice more preventive health behaviors over the next two decades after controlling for age, education, functional health, gender, self-rated health, and race (P = 0.032).
CONCLUSIONS
Our findings suggest that addressing views about aging could help improve efforts to increase preventive health behaviors in the older population.
背景
研究发现，老年人是最不可能采取预防性健康行为的年龄群体，尽管这些行为在人的整个生命周期中都持续使人受益。我们首次调查了一个特定年龄因素，即老年人对自身衰老的看法，是否能预测他们随着时间推移采取预防性健康行为的可能性。
方法
我们进行了多元线性回归，以检验衰老自我认知对241名年龄在50 - 80岁之间、参与俄亥俄州衰老与退休纵向研究（OLSAR）的个体的预防性健康行为的预测价值。预防性健康行为包括均衡饮食、锻炼以及遵循处方药服用说明。
结果
在控制了年龄、教育程度、功能健康状况、性别、自我健康评分和种族后，对衰老有更积极自我认知的个体在接下来的二十年里往往会采取更多的预防性健康行为（P = 0.032）。
结论
我们的研究结果表明，解决对衰老的看法可能有助于改进在老年人群中增加预防性健康行为的努力。
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