School of nursing, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
School of nursing, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang, China.
J Elder Abuse Negl. 2024 Nov-Dec;36(5):487-507. doi: 10.1080/08946566.2024.2389389. Epub 2024 Aug 13.
This study aims to examine the association between neighborly relations and self-neglect.
We used the Scale of the Elderly Self-neglect to measure elder self-neglect. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between neighborly relations and self-neglect and its' phenotypes.
After adjusting for potential confounders, the risk of overall self-neglect among individuals with harmonious neighbor relationships significantly decreased by 79.2%. In comparison to elderly individuals living alone with poor neighbor relationships, those with harmonious connections experienced a 77.6% reduction in the risk of medical self-neglect, an 89.9% decrease in the risk of hygiene self-neglect, a 65.1% decline in the risk of emotional self-neglect, a 77.9% drop in the risk of safety self-neglect, and a 56.8% lower risk of social self-neglect.
This study highlights harmonious neighborly relations are an independent protector factor for self-neglect. Fostering neighborly relations might be a practical approach to mitigating self-neglect.
本研究旨在探讨邻里关系与自我忽视之间的关联。
我们使用老年人自我忽视量表来衡量老年人的自我忽视情况。采用逻辑回归检验邻里关系与自我忽视及其表型之间的关联。
在调整了潜在混杂因素后，邻里关系和谐的个体发生总体自我忽视的风险显著降低了 79.2%。与邻里关系差、独居的老年人相比，邻里关系和谐的个体发生医疗自我忽视的风险降低了 77.6%，发生卫生自我忽视的风险降低了 89.9%，发生情感自我忽视的风险降低了 65.1%，发生安全自我忽视的风险降低了 77.9%，发生社会自我忽视的风险降低了 56.8%。
本研究强调了和谐的邻里关系是自我忽视的一个独立保护因素。促进邻里关系可能是减轻自我忽视的一种实用方法。
