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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Li Song, Yujie Wang, Qinghua Zhang, Jinyu Yin, Wei Gan, Siyi Shang, Lingxia Qi, Shengguang Chen, Tongtong Liu
Summary: Empty nesters in China have limited mental health literacy, which may lead to poorer health outcomes. This study aims to investigate the possible mediating role of resilience in the relationship between mental health literacy and positive coping style.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychiatry
Lanying He, Jian Wang, Feng Wang, Lili Zhang, Yinglin Liu, Fan Xu
Summary: This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of depression symptoms and quality of life, as well as examine the influencing factors in empty nest elderly. The results showed that 39.0% of empty-nest elderly experienced depression symptoms, and age, chronic disease, and physical activity were found to be associated with the risk of depression symptoms. The study also found that the QoL score was lower among empty-nest elderly.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2022)
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Cell Biology
Fan Yang, Zhen Li, Guo-Wen Wang, Xiu-Xin Shi, Chang Fu
Summary: The study found that cognitive function was poorer in empty-nest elderly living alone, but better in those living as a couple. Factors influencing cognitive function included age, rural habitation, instrumental activities of daily living, depression, education level, gender, marital status, weight, and chronic diseases.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Sijie Xu, Xiaocong Yang, Jieyu Liu, Marc Ka-chun Chong, Yu Cheng, Weiwei Gong, Guanyang Zou
Summary: The number of empty nest elderly in China has been increasing, causing concerns about their physical and mental health. This study compared the health and well-being of empty nest elderly with non-empty nest elderly in China. The results showed that empty nest elderly had a higher prevalence of certain health conditions, but the differences disappeared in the multivariable analysis.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lorena Cudris-Torres, Stefano Vinaccia Alpi, Alvaro Barrios-Nunez, Natali Gaviria Arrieta, Jessica Mejia Gutierrez, Libia Alvis Barranco, Gerson Rios-Carlys, Silvia E. Cuenca-Calderon, Valmore Bermudez, Juan Hernandez-Lalinde, Carlos Arturo Riveira Zuleta, Marly Johana Bahamon, Juany Sofia Alvarez Herrera
Summary: The aim of this study was to explore the association between self-efficacy, perception of disease, emotional regulation, and fatigue with the health-related quality of life in older adults diagnosed with a chronic disease in Colombia. The participants were 325 older adults with literacy and no cognitive impairment. The results indicate that self-efficacy, disease perception, emotional regulation, and fatigue severity are variables that could impact the physical function of quality of life.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Fulei Han, Ruirui Duan, Beibei Huang, Qiulin Wang
Summary: This study examined the impact of coping style and two intermediary factors (cognitive reappraisal and psychological resilience) on the mental health of middle school students in China during the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze questionnaire responses from 743 middle school students. The results showed that coping style, cognitive reappraisal, and psychological resilience directly influenced mental health. Negative coping styles had a significantly stronger negative effect on mental health compared to positive coping styles. Coping style affected mental health through the independent mediating effects of cognitive reappraisal and psychological resilience, as well as through their chain mediation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yijin Wu, Quan Zhang, Yan Huang, Sihang Qiu
Summary: Rural empty-nest elderly in China face difficulties and challenges in seeking medical services, including low income, high medical expenses, and inadequate health insurance coverage. They have to rely on neighbors and relatives to receive necessary medical care.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Anahita Shokrkon, Elena Nicoladis
Summary: This study examines the relationship between personality traits and mental health of Canadian children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. It found that personality traits, such as neuroticism and agreeableness, play a role in predicting mental health problems in youth. This information could help tailor mental health services for children based on their personalities.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Shasha Li, Yuecong Wang, Lijun Xu, Yingyuan Ni, Yingxue Xi
Summary: This study aimed to explore the level and relationship between the mental health service needs, coping styles, and mental health of old adults living alone in urban and rural areas, and to investigate the moderating effects of coping styles. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 717 older adults living alone. Significant differences were found in the mental health service needs, coping styles, and mental health between urban and rural old adults living alone. The findings highlight the importance of high mental health service needs and positive coping styles as potential protective factors for mental health in old adults living alone.
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Pediatrics
Hua Cao, Ruiqi Zhang, Ling Li, Ling Yang
Summary: This study aimed to assess the impact of coping style and resilience on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and mental health symptomology among college students. The results revealed that childhood maltreatment was positively correlated with mental health symptomology and negatively correlated with coping style and resilience. Coping style was negatively correlated with mental health symptomology and positively correlated with resilience. Resilience was negatively correlated with mental health symptomology. Coping style and resilience played a partially mediating role in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and college students' mental health symptomology.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yuan Yuan, Chunhua Tao, Ping Yu, Yanwei Wang, Akio Kitayama, En Takashi, Kiyoko Yanagihara, Jingyan Liang
Summary: This study surveyed and analyzed the telenursing needs of empty-nest elderly individuals with chronic diseases based on the Kano model. The findings showed that these individuals had a positive attitude towards telenursing and had different levels of need for different telenursing services.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Fei Cao, Juan Li, Wei Xin, Zhibing Yang, Di Wu
Summary: This study examines the relationship between resilience, coping styles, regulatory focus, and mental health among military personnel during the COVID-19 lockdown. The results suggest that resilience negatively impacts psychological symptoms, while mature and mixed coping styles mediate the association between resilience and psychological symptoms. Regulatory focus predominance has a negative moderating effect on the effects of mature coping styles on psychological symptoms.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Psychiatry
Huan Zhu, Lei He, Jiayi Peng, Xingyue Li, Bo Gao, Huan Zhou, Yang Wan
Summary: This study explores the impact of community social capital on the health-related quality of life of empty-nest elderly. The findings reveal that cognitive social capital has a positive relationship with physical health and mental health, while structural social capital does not significantly affect quality of life. Living arrangements moderate the relationship between cognitive social capital and mental health.
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Xiaoyan Lv, Doris S. F. Yu, Yingjuan Cao, Jinghua Xia
Summary: The study found that empty-nest elderly patients with T2DM primarily focus on medication compliance and lifestyle changes in their self-care, but lack attention to blood glucose monitoring, complication prevention, and negative emotions. They also lack social support, where friends and spouses play important roles in self-care motivation. Therefore, there is a need to enhance diabetes education, access to medical resources, and social support for better diabetes management.
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychiatry
Yiman Huang, Xiaoyou Su, Mingyu Si, Weijun Xiao, Hao Wang, Wenjun Wang, Xiaofen Gu, Li Ma, Jing Li, Shaokai Zhang, Zefang Ren, Youlin Qiao
Summary: The study explored the impact of coping style and social support on the psychological well-being of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. It found that active coping strategies and family support were protective factors, while passive coping strategies like smoking and drinking worsened mental health. Suitable psychointervention, routine screening for risk behaviors, and provision of social support are necessary for undergraduate students in times of crisis.
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Wen Hao, Yi-fan Shan, Takashi Kimura, Shigekazu Ukawa, Hideki Ohira, Satoe Okabayashi, Kenji Wakai, Masahiko Ando, Akiko Tamakoshi
Summary: The study found that dual decline in gait speed and cognition is associated with a higher risk of late-life dementia, particularly in older Japanese men. These findings highlight the importance of early screening for dual decline.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Lijun Zhao, Kexin Hu, Weiting Liu, Haonan Qi, Guodong Li, Jun Chen, Limin Han
Summary: This study found that Anemonin (ANE) can delay cellular senescence through the PARP1-NAD+-SIRT1 signaling pathway, suggesting it as a potential effective anti-aging strategy.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Mohammad Soleimani Farsani, Mohammad Fathi, Zahra Hemati Farsani, Zinab Gourgin Karaji
Summary: Swimming training has a significant effect on the expression of Neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM), Semaphorin 3A (SEMA3A), and Profilin-1 (PFN1) proteins in the gastrocnemius muscle of Alzheimer-like phenotype rats.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Hailin Zhang, Kai Kang, Shuaijie Chen, Qiong Su, Weijie Zhang, Lishan Zeng, Xiaoyan Lin, Feng Peng, Jinxiu Lin, Dajun Chai
Summary: This study found that longitudinal changes in cardiac function in patients with AMI were independently associated with high baseline serum LDH levels. Baseline LDH levels may be an important parameter for predicting future cardiac dysfunction after AMI, especially in the elderly.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Alberto Pilotto, Marina Barbagelata, Wanda Morganti, Emanuele Seminerio, Guido Iaccarino, Armando Genazzani, Carlo Trompetto, Gennarina Arabia, Maddalena Illario, Erica Volta, Carlo Custodero, Alberto Cella
Summary: The prevention and treatment of frailty condition among multimorbid older adults is becoming a healthcare priority. A multidimensional approach using information and communication technology (ICT) offers a way to implement and monitor personalized interventions. The MULTIPLAT_AGE project aims to provide multidimensional interventions for older adults using a shared online platform, including transitional care, automatic home-care, appropriate drug prescription, tele-rehabilitation, and remote cognitive stimulation.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Weida Lyu, Tomoki Tanaka, Bo-Kyung Son, Yasuyo Yoshizawa, Masahiro Akishita, Katsuya Iijima
Summary: The study found that the Eleven-Check questionnaire could be used to screen frailty and sarcopenia status in community-dwelling older adults. The high-risk group had a higher risk of frailty and sarcopenia.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Editorial Material
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Liang-Kung Chen
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Sandra Kuiper, Henriette Dijkshoornf, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
Summary: This study examined the associations between chronic diseases and multidimensional frailty comprising physical, psychological, and social frailty. The results showed that chronic diseases, especially urinary incontinence and severe back disorder, were associated with frailty. The study recommends assigning different weights to individual chronic diseases in measuring multimorbidity and its effects on multidimensional frailty.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Kimi Estela Kobayashi-Cuya, Ryota Sakurai, Naoko Sakuma, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Susumu Ogawa, Toru Takebayashi, Yoshinori Fujiwara
Summary: The study found a positive bidirectional association between hand dexterity and maximum gait speed with executive function performance, while handgrip strength and usual gait speed showed no associations. This suggests that hand dexterity and motor speed have an important impact on cognitive function and are mutually dependent on each other.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Sunghwan Ji, Ji Yeon Baek, Eunju Lee, Il-Young Jang, Hee-Won Jung
Summary: By validating the KWGS guideline in older Korean adults, this study found that different phenotypes of sarcopenia were associated with increased frailty and higher risks of institutionalization and mortality. Functional sarcopenia demonstrated comparable prognosis with sarcopenia (not severe) and was linked to greater frailty.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Review
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Masatoshi Nakamura, Kosuke Takeuchi, Taizan Fukaya, Gakuto Nakao, Andreas Konrad, Takamasa Mizuno
Summary: Static stretching can decrease the passive stiffness of the muscle-tendon unit (MTU) and/or muscles in older adults. The effects of static stretching on stiffness are comparable between older and young adults.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Ji Liu, Qiaoyi Chen
Summary: This study examines the relationship between depressive symptoms, sleep duration, and cognitive performance among older adults. The results suggest that early depressive symptoms are associated with increased depressive symptoms, shortened sleep duration, and worsened cognition. Sleep duration and depression progression mediate the relationship between early depressive symptoms and cognitive performance.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Yong-Hao Pua, Berend Terluin, Laura Tay, Ross Allan Clark, Julian Thumboo, Ee-Ling Tay, Shi-Min Mah, Yee-Sien Ng
Summary: This study introduces and demonstrates the utility of an item response theory (IRT) method in estimating frailty index (FI) interpretation thresholds in community-dwelling adults, providing a new tool and reference for defining frailty.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Mengxiao Hu, Haiyang Yu, Yike Zhang, Bowen Xiang, Qing Wang
Summary: This study found bidirectional associations among the accumulation of chronic conditions, disability, and depressive symptoms, especially between disability and depression. Women were more sensitive to the accumulation of chronic conditions through disability.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)
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Geriatrics & Gerontology
Juan Carlos Pineiro-Fernandez, Ramon Rabunal-Rey, Ana Maseda, Eva Romay-Lema, Roi Suarez-Gil, Sonia Pertega-Diaz
Summary: This study describes the distribution and temporal trends of the centenarian population and their hospital admissions in Spain over the past two decades. It found a significant increase in the centenarian population and hospital admissions, with regional and sex-based differences. Women represented a larger proportion of centenarians and hospital admissions. Understanding these trends and differences is crucial for implementing interventions that ensure adequate healthcare for centenarians.
ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS
(2024)