Social Isolation and Worsening Health Behaviors Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examine the relationship between social isolation, poor health behaviors, and the perceived worsening of older adults' health behaviors following the coronavirus outbreak. We assess the extent to which psychological pathways mediate the relationship between social isolation and worsening health behaviors.

Methods

Drawing on data from the National Social Life Health and Aging Project Round 3 (2015) and its coronavirus immune disease 2019 (COVID-19) substudy (2020; N = 2,549), we use generalized linear models to explore how indicators of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic-infrequent in-person contact with friends and family in 2020 and decreased in-person contact with friends and family since COVID-19 started-are associated with (1) poor health behavio

SUBMITTER: Choi KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10645306 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature