dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-26T15:59:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-26T15:59:25Z | |
dc.date.created | 2024-04-15T14:42:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke . Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study. GeroScience. 2024, 1-15 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/111297 | |
dc.description.abstract | Spousal bereavement is associated with health declines and increased mortality risk, but its specific impact on physical and cognitive capabilities is less studied. A historical cohort study design was applied including married Tromsø study participants (N=5739) aged 50–70 years with baseline self-reported overall health and health-related factors and measured capability (grip strength, finger tapping, digit symbol coding, and short-term recall) at follow-up. Participants had data from Tromsø4 (1994–1995) and Tromsø5 (2001), or Tromsø6 (2007–2008) and Tromsø7 (2015–2016). Propensity score matching, adjusted for baseline confounders (and baseline capability in a subset), was used to investigate whether spousal bereavement was associated with poorer subsequent capability. Spousal bereavement occurred for 6.2% on average 3.7 years (SD 2.0) before the capability assessment. There were no significant bereavement effects on subsequent grip strength, immediate recall, or finger-tapping speed. Without adjustment for baseline digit symbol coding test performance, there was a negative significant effect on the digit symbol coding test (ATT −1.33; 95% confidence interval −2.57, −0.10), but when baseline digit symbol coding test performance was taken into account in a smaller subsample, using the same set of matching confounders, there was no longer any association (in the subsample ATT changed from −1.29 (95% CI −3.38, 0.80) to −0.04 (95% CI −1.83, 1.75). The results in our study suggest that spousal bereavement does not have long-term effects on the intrinsic capacity components physical or cognition capability to a notable degree. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study | |
dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishSpousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Strand, Bjørn Heine | |
dc.creator.author | Håberg, Asta | |
dc.creator.author | Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif | |
dc.creator.author | Kok, Almar | |
dc.creator.author | Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse | |
dc.creator.author | Huxhold, Oliver | |
dc.creator.author | Løset, Gøril Kvamme | |
dc.creator.author | Lennartsson, Carin | |
dc.creator.author | Schirmer, Henrik | |
dc.creator.author | Herlofson, Katharina | |
dc.creator.author | Veenstra, Marijke | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,53,82,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Klinikk for indremedisin og lab fag | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2261751 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=GeroScience&rft.volume=&rft.spage=1&rft.date=2024 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | GeroScience | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 15 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01150-y | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 2509-2715 | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |
dc.relation.project | NFR/301958 | |