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Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan
BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between community social capital and cognitive impairment, with a focus on the buffering role of community social capital in the association between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults in Japan. METHODS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31675931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7803-0 |
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author | Murayama, Hiroshi Miyamae, Fumiko Ura, Chiaki Sakuma, Naoko Sugiyama, Mika Inagaki, Hiroki Okamura, Tsuyoshi Awata, Shuichi |
author_facet | Murayama, Hiroshi Miyamae, Fumiko Ura, Chiaki Sakuma, Naoko Sugiyama, Mika Inagaki, Hiroki Okamura, Tsuyoshi Awata, Shuichi |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between community social capital and cognitive impairment, with a focus on the buffering role of community social capital in the association between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults in Japan. METHODS: We used data from two population-based, cross-sectional surveys targeting people aged ≥65 years in a suburban city of the Tokyo metropolitan area (n = 897; 49.8% men; average age = 74.4 years). Social capital included social support (emotional and instrumental support) and the strength of social networks (neighborly ties). To create district-level social capital indicators, we aggregated individual responses on social capital within each district. The Mini-Mental State Examination, Japanese version was used for the assessment of cognitive function. RESULTS: Using multilevel logistic regression analysis, we found that lower amounts of district-level emotional and instrumental support were associated with a greater likelihood of cognitive impairment among men. For women, district-level emotional support was associated with a greater likelihood of cognitive impairment. Additionally, a strong district-level social network buffered the relationship between low education and cognitive impairment in both sexes. CONCLUSIONS: Community social capital appears to have a protective role in determining cognitive function in old age. Our findings may facilitate the development of new community-based strategies to combat dementia. |
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spelling | pubmed-68253392019-11-07 Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan Murayama, Hiroshi Miyamae, Fumiko Ura, Chiaki Sakuma, Naoko Sugiyama, Mika Inagaki, Hiroki Okamura, Tsuyoshi Awata, Shuichi BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: This study explored the relationship between community social capital and cognitive impairment, with a focus on the buffering role of community social capital in the association between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older adults in Japan. METHODS: We used data from two population-based, cross-sectional surveys targeting people aged ≥65 years in a suburban city of the Tokyo metropolitan area (n = 897; 49.8% men; average age = 74.4 years). Social capital included social support (emotional and instrumental support) and the strength of social networks (neighborly ties). To create district-level social capital indicators, we aggregated individual responses on social capital within each district. The Mini-Mental State Examination, Japanese version was used for the assessment of cognitive function. RESULTS: Using multilevel logistic regression analysis, we found that lower amounts of district-level emotional and instrumental support were associated with a greater likelihood of cognitive impairment among men. For women, district-level emotional support was associated with a greater likelihood of cognitive impairment. Additionally, a strong district-level social network buffered the relationship between low education and cognitive impairment in both sexes. CONCLUSIONS: Community social capital appears to have a protective role in determining cognitive function in old age. Our findings may facilitate the development of new community-based strategies to combat dementia. BioMed Central 2019-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6825339/ /pubmed/31675931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7803-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Murayama, Hiroshi Miyamae, Fumiko Ura, Chiaki Sakuma, Naoko Sugiyama, Mika Inagaki, Hiroki Okamura, Tsuyoshi Awata, Shuichi Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title | Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title_full | Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title_fullStr | Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title_full_unstemmed | Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title_short | Does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? A multilevel analysis in Japan |
title_sort | does community social capital buffer the relationship between educational disadvantage and cognitive impairment? a multilevel analysis in japan |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6825339/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31675931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7803-0 |
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