Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors.
Age Ageing
; 46(2): 277-283, 2017 03 01.
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ABSTRACT
Background:
poor diet quality is common among older people, but little is known about influences on food choice, including the role of psychosocial factors at this age.Objective:
to identify psychosocial correlates of diet quality in a community-dwelling population of men and women aged 59-73 years; to describe relationships with change in diet quality over 10 years.Design:
Longitudinal cohort, Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS).Subjects:
HCS participants assessed at baseline (1998-2003 1,048 men, 862 women); 183 men and 189 women re-assessed in 2011.Methods:
diet was assessed by administered food frequency questionnaire; diet scores were calculated to describe diet quality at baseline and follow-up. A range of psychosocial factors (social support, social network, participation in leisure activities, depression and anxiety, sense of control) were assessed by questionnaire.Results:
at baseline, better diet quality was related to a range of social factors, including increased confiding/emotional social support (men and women), practical support (men) and a larger social network (women) (all P < 0.05). For both men and women, greater participation in social and cognitive leisure activities was related to better diet quality (P < 0.005). There were few associations between measured psychosocial factors at baseline and change in diet score over 10 years, in the follow-up sub-group. However, greater participation in leisure activities, especially cognitive activities, at baseline was associated with smaller declines in diet quality over the 10-year follow-up period for both men (P = 0.017) and women (P = 0.014).Conclusions:
in community-dwelling older adults, a range of social factors, that includes greater participation in leisure activities, were associated with diets of better quality.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Social
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Envelhecimento
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Comportamento de Escolha
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Estado Nutricional
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Dieta
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Preferências Alimentares
Tipo de estudo:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Age Ageing
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido