By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Nursing Home & Elder Business Week -- Data detailed on Health and Medicine have been presented. According to news reporting from Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This study aimed to examine the associations between objectively assessed neighbourhood environmental attributes and depressive symptoms in Hong Kong Chinese older adults and the moderating effects of neighbourhood environmental attributes on the associations between living arrangements and depressive symptoms. Cross-sectional observational study. Hong Kong. 909 Hong Kong Chinese community dwellers aged 65+ years residing in preselected areas stratified by walkability and socioeconomic status. Attributes of participants’ neighbourhood environment were objectively assessed using geographic information systems and environmental audits.”
Financial supporters for this research include General Research Fund, Australian Research Council - Future Fellowship.
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Hong Kong, “Depressive symptoms were measured using the Geriatric Depression Scale. Overall, pedestrian infrastructure (OR=1.025; p=0.008), connectivity (OR=1.039; p=0.002) and prevalence of public transport stops (OR=1.056; p=0.012) were positively associated with the odds of reporting depressive symptoms. Older adults living alone were at higher risk of reporting any depressive symptoms than those living with others (OR=1.497; p=0.039). This association was moderated by neighbourhood crowdedness, perceptible pollution, access to destinations and presence of people. Residing in neighbourhoods with lower levels of these attributes was associated with increased deleterious effects of living alone. Living in neighbourhoods with lower public transport density also increased the deleterious effects of living alone on the number of depressive symptoms. Those living alone and residing in neighbourhoods with higher levels of connectivity tended to report more depressive symptoms than their counterparts. The level of access to destinations and social networks across Hong Kong may be sufficiently high to reduce the risk of depressive symptoms in older adults. Yet, exposure to extreme levels of public transport density and associated traffic volumes may increase the risk of depressive symptoms.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The provision of good access to a variety of destinations, public transport and public open spaces for socialising in the neighbourhood may help reduce the risk of depressive symptoms in older adults who live alone.”
For more information on this research see: Cross-sectional associations of objectively assessed neighbourhood attributes with depressive symptoms in older adults of an ultra-dense urban environment: the Hong Kong ALECS study. Bmj Open , 2018;8(3):e020480. (BMJ Publishing Group - http://group.bmj.com/; Bmj Open - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting C.J.P. Zhang, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include A. Barnett, C.HP. Sit, P.C. Lai, J.M. Johnston, R.SY. Lee and E. Cerin.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020480. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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