Wong Sabrina T, Wu Amery, Gregorich Steven, Pérez-Stable Eliseo J
University of British Columbia, School of Nursing and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Vancouver, Canada University of California, San Francisco, USA
University of British Columbia, School of Nursing and Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, Vancouver, Canada.
J Aging Health. 2014 Jun;26(4):663-678. doi: 10.1177/0898264314527478. Epub 2014 Apr 14.
We examined which types of social support were associated with older women's self-report of physical and mental health and whether the effects of social support were moderated by race/ethnicity.
Women completed a health behavior survey that included the Medical Outcomes Study-Short Form-12 (MOS SF-12). Single race/ethnic group regressions examined whether different types of social support were related to health. We also examined Pratt's relative importance measures.
Emotional support had the strongest effect on both physical and mental health, explaining the highest amount of variation, except among African Americans. Race/ethnicity moderated the association of informational support for Asian women's reports of their mental health.
For clinicians, assessing individuals' emotional support is important for maintaining or increasing physical and mental health. Clinicians can also assess Asian women's stress, providing informational support accordingly as too much information could be detrimental to their health. For researchers, the inclusion of emotional support items is the most important.
我们研究了哪些类型的社会支持与老年女性的身心健康自我报告相关，以及社会支持的效果是否因种族/民族而有所不同。
女性完成了一项健康行为调查，其中包括医学结果研究简表12（MOS SF - 12）。单一种族/民族群体回归分析了不同类型的社会支持是否与健康相关。我们还研究了普拉特的相对重要性度量。
情感支持对身心健康的影响最为显著，解释了除非裔美国人外的最高变异量。种族/民族调节了信息支持与亚洲女性心理健康报告之间的关联。
对于临床医生而言，评估个体的情感支持对于维持或增进身心健康至关重要。临床医生还可以评估亚洲女性的压力，并相应地提供信息支持，因为过多信息可能对她们的健康有害。对于研究人员来说，纳入情感支持项目是最重要的。
