Toyoshima Aya, Martin Peter, Sato Shinichi, Poon Leonard W
Osaka University, Suita, Japan.
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA.
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018 Feb;33(2):414-422. doi: 10.1002/gps.4763. Epub 2017 Jul 25.
The current study evaluated the visual function among centenarians and assessed the relationship between vision, social support, and well-being.
This study used the data set of the Georgia Centenarian Study including 106 centenarians (18 men and 88 women). We used scores of the Snellen chart for objective vision and self-reports for subjective vision. Social support, depression, and loneliness were also assessed.
Approximately 75% of the centenarians showed some level of objective visual impairment, and 56% of them reported that they had visual impairment. Objective vision impairment was significantly related to depression. Multiple regression analysis revealed that both variables of visual function were significantly associated with depression, but not loneliness. In the model including depression, a significant interaction was obtained for social support and objective vision. Centenarians reported lower level of depression when they had social support. However, centenarians who had low level of visual function tended to report higher depression even if they had social support.
These results indicated that vision function was related to centenarians' well-being, especially depression. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
本研究评估了百岁老人的视觉功能，并探讨了视力、社会支持与幸福感之间的关系。
本研究使用了佐治亚百岁老人研究数据集，其中包括106位百岁老人（18名男性和88名女性）。我们使用斯内伦视力表评分来评估客观视力，通过自我报告来评估主观视力。同时，我们也对社会支持、抑郁和孤独感进行了评估。
约75%的百岁老人存在一定程度的客观视力损害，其中56%的人报告自己有视力损害。客观视力损害与抑郁显著相关。多元回归分析显示，视觉功能的两个变量均与抑郁显著相关，但与孤独感无关。在包含抑郁的模型中，社会支持与客观视力之间存在显著的交互作用。当百岁老人获得社会支持时，他们报告的抑郁水平较低。然而，即使获得了社会支持，视觉功能较差的百岁老人往往报告更高的抑郁水平。
这些结果表明，视觉功能与百岁老人的幸福感，尤其是抑郁有关。版权所有© 2017约翰威立父子有限公司。
