Section of Social Medicine, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
J Aging Health. 2012 Oct;24(7):1203-22. doi: 10.1177/0898264312454574. Epub 2012 Aug 6.
To analyze the impact of social capital measures (bonding, bridging, and linking) on all-cause mortality at 8-year follow-up among older people aged 75 and 80 at baseline.
Prospective cohort study on preventive home visits including 2,863 seventy-five-year-olds and 1,171 eighty-year-olds in 34 Danish municipalities. The associations of the three aspects of social capital measures with mortality were tested in Cox regression models on time to death.
In the 80-year-old cohort significant associations were seen between mortality and both bridging (hazards ratio (HR)=1.24, 95% CI [1.07, 1.45]) and linking (HR=1.21, 95% CI [1.03, 1.43]), but the associations attenuated when controlling for relevant confounders. None of the social capital measures were associated with mortality among the 75-year-olds.
The measures of social capital used in the present study include key aspects of social capital that are associated to mortality in older populations via physical activity and mobility disability.
分析社会资本措施（联系、桥接和连接）对基线时 75 岁和 80 岁老年人 8 年随访时全因死亡率的影响。
前瞻性队列研究，对包括 34 个丹麦市的 2863 名 75 岁和 1171 名 80 岁老年人进行预防性家访。在 Cox 回归模型中，测试了社会资本措施的三个方面与死亡率之间的关联。
在 80 岁队列中，死亡率与桥接（危险比（HR）=1.24，95%置信区间[1.07，1.45]）和连接（HR=1.21，95%置信区间[1.03，1.43]）显著相关，但在控制相关混杂因素后，关联减弱。在 75 岁组中，没有任何社会资本措施与死亡率相关。
本研究中使用的社会资本措施包括社会资本的关键方面，这些方面通过体力活动和行动障碍与老年人群体的死亡率相关。
