Journal
SSM-POPULATION HEALTH
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100726
Keywords
Social contact; Depressive symptoms; Loneliness; Older adults
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- UK Medical Research Council [MC_UU_12017/13, MC_PC_17217, MR/R024774/1]
- Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office [SPHSU13]
- National Health Service Research Scotland [SCAF/15/02]
- National Institute of Aging [R01AG017644]
- consortium of UK government departments
- MRC [MC_UU_12017/13, MC_PC_17217, MR/R024774/1, MC_UU_00022/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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Social contact, including remote contact, can help reduce social inequalities in depressive symptoms and loneliness among older adults.
Background: Social contact, including remote contact (by telephone, email, letter or text), could help reduce social inequalities in depressive symptoms and loneliness among older adults. Methods: Data were from the 8th wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (2016/17), stratified by age (n = 1578 aged <65; n = 4026 aged 65+). Inverse probability weighting was used to estimate average effects of weekly in-person and remote social contact on depressive symptoms (score of 3+ on 8-item CES-D scale) and two measures of loneliness (sometimes/often feels lonely vs hardly ever/never; and top quintile of UCLA loneliness scale vs all others). We also estimated controlled direct effects of education, partner status, and wealth on loneliness and depressive symptoms under two scenarios: 1) universal infrequent (
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