Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.
Center for LGBT Health Research, Graduate School of Public Health.
AIDS. 2023 Apr 1;37(5):803-811. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003464. Epub 2022 Dec 23.
OBJECTIVE: This study examines the association between social support and cognitive function among midlife and older MSM living with or without HIV. DESIGN: We analyzed longitudinal data from participants enrolled from October 2016 to March 2019 in the Patterns of Healthy Aging Study, a substudy of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis to estimate the association between social support and three measures of cognitive function [Trail Making Test (TMT) Part A, TMT Part B to A ratio, and Symbol Digit Modalities Tasks (SDMT)]. We also used linear mixed-effects models to estimate the association between baseline social support and cognitive function across four subsequent time points. We evaluated a multiplicative interaction term between baseline social support and time, in order to determine whether cognitive trajectories over time vary by baseline social support. RESULTS: Social support was associated with lower TMT Part A scores at baseline and over the subsequent 2 years, indicating better psychomotor ability. Social support was associated with higher SDMT scores at baseline and across 2 years, indicating better information processing. We observed no association between social support and TMT B to A ratio at baseline or across 2 years, indicating no effect on set-shifting ability. Longitudinal cognition outcome trajectories did not vary by the level of baseline social support. CONCLUSION: Social support and cognitive function were associated in this sample over a short time period. Further research should explore causal relationships over the lifespan.
目的:本研究旨在探讨社会支持与伴有或不伴有 HIV 的中年和老年男男性行为者认知功能之间的关系。
设计:我们分析了 2016 年 10 月至 2019 年 3 月期间参加“健康老龄化模式研究”(多中心艾滋病队列研究的一个子研究)的参与者的纵向数据。
方法:我们进行了横断面分析,以估计社会支持与认知功能的三个衡量指标(TMT 测试 A 部分、TMT 测试 B 到 A 的比值和符号数字模态任务)之间的关系。我们还使用线性混合效应模型来估计基线社会支持与四个后续时间点之间的认知功能之间的关系。我们评估了基线社会支持和时间之间的乘法交互项,以确定认知轨迹随时间的变化是否因基线社会支持而异。
结果:社会支持与基线时和随后 2 年内的 TMT 测试 A 部分得分较低相关,表明心理运动能力更好。社会支持与基线和 2 年内的 SDMT 得分较高相关,表明信息处理能力更好。我们没有观察到社会支持与 TMT B 到 A 比值在基线或 2 年内的相关性,表明其对转换能力没有影响。纵向认知结果轨迹不受基线社会支持水平的影响。
结论:在本研究中,社会支持与认知功能在短时间内相关。进一步的研究应该探索整个生命周期中的因果关系。
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