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Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study

BACKGROUND: The increasing proportion of people growing old, demands expanded knowledge of how people can experience successful aging. Having a good life while growing old is dependent on several factors such as nutrition, physical health, the ability to perform activities of daily living, lifestyle...

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Autores principales: Grønning, Kjersti, Espnes, Geir A., Nguyen, Camilla, Rodrigues, Ana Maria Ferreira, Gregorio, Maria Joao, Sousa, Rute, Canhão, Helena, André, Beate
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0891-3
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author Grønning, Kjersti
Espnes, Geir A.
Nguyen, Camilla
Rodrigues, Ana Maria Ferreira
Gregorio, Maria Joao
Sousa, Rute
Canhão, Helena
André, Beate
author_facet Grønning, Kjersti
Espnes, Geir A.
Nguyen, Camilla
Rodrigues, Ana Maria Ferreira
Gregorio, Maria Joao
Sousa, Rute
Canhão, Helena
André, Beate
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description BACKGROUND: The increasing proportion of people growing old, demands expanded knowledge of how people can experience successful aging. Having a good life while growing old is dependent on several factors such as nutrition, physical health, the ability to perform activities of daily living, lifestyle and psychological health. Furthermore, unhealthy food intake is found to be a modifiable risk factor for depression in elderly people. To promote elderly’s health and wellbeing, the influence of nutrition, lifestyle, physical functioning, and social support on psychological distress needs exploring. Therefore, the purpose of this present study is to investigate the associations between psychological distress and diet patterns when adjusting for other life style behaviors, wellbeing, health status, physical functioning and social support in elderly people. METHODS: The present study is cross sectional, using data from wave three of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (2006–2008). Data include psychological distress measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), sociodemographic information, measurements of lifestyle behaviours (including diet patterns), wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 11,621 participants, 65 years or older. Cluster analysis categorized the participants in two food clusters based on similarities in food consumption (healthy N = 9128, unhealthy N = 2493). Stepwise multivariable linear regression analyses revealed that lesser psychological distress in the elderly was dependent on gender, diet, smoking, better scores on health and wellbeing, social support and less problems performing instrumental activities of daily living. CONCLUSION: Knowledge about the influence of diet patterns in relation to psychological distress provide valuable insights into how society can promote healthy lifestyles to an ageing population, e.g. by increasing older people’s food knowledge.
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spelling pubmed-61239862018-09-10 Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study Grønning, Kjersti Espnes, Geir A. Nguyen, Camilla Rodrigues, Ana Maria Ferreira Gregorio, Maria Joao Sousa, Rute Canhão, Helena André, Beate BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: The increasing proportion of people growing old, demands expanded knowledge of how people can experience successful aging. Having a good life while growing old is dependent on several factors such as nutrition, physical health, the ability to perform activities of daily living, lifestyle and psychological health. Furthermore, unhealthy food intake is found to be a modifiable risk factor for depression in elderly people. To promote elderly’s health and wellbeing, the influence of nutrition, lifestyle, physical functioning, and social support on psychological distress needs exploring. Therefore, the purpose of this present study is to investigate the associations between psychological distress and diet patterns when adjusting for other life style behaviors, wellbeing, health status, physical functioning and social support in elderly people. METHODS: The present study is cross sectional, using data from wave three of the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (2006–2008). Data include psychological distress measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), sociodemographic information, measurements of lifestyle behaviours (including diet patterns), wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning. RESULTS: The sample consisted of 11,621 participants, 65 years or older. Cluster analysis categorized the participants in two food clusters based on similarities in food consumption (healthy N = 9128, unhealthy N = 2493). Stepwise multivariable linear regression analyses revealed that lesser psychological distress in the elderly was dependent on gender, diet, smoking, better scores on health and wellbeing, social support and less problems performing instrumental activities of daily living. CONCLUSION: Knowledge about the influence of diet patterns in relation to psychological distress provide valuable insights into how society can promote healthy lifestyles to an ageing population, e.g. by increasing older people’s food knowledge. BioMed Central 2018-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6123986/ /pubmed/30180808 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0891-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Grønning, Kjersti
Espnes, Geir A.
Nguyen, Camilla
Rodrigues, Ana Maria Ferreira
Gregorio, Maria Joao
Sousa, Rute
Canhão, Helena
André, Beate
Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title_full Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title_fullStr Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title_full_unstemmed Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title_short Psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a HUNT3 study
title_sort psychological distress in elderly people is associated with diet, wellbeing, health status, social support and physical functioning- a hunt3 study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6123986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30180808
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0891-3
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