Impact of subjective well-being on physical frailty in middle-aged and elderly Japanese with high social isolation.

ABSTRACT: Social isolation exacerbates physical frailty and is associated with subjective well-being. Even those with high levels of social isolation may have different health statuses depending on the type of isolation and their subjective well-being. However, the effect of subjective well-being on the relationship between social isolation and physical frailty remains unclear. This study examined whether the risk of physical frailty was the same for individuals with social isolation according to high and low subjective well-being. The study participants included 1,953 middle-aged Japanese adults aged 45 years and older. Physical frailty was assessed using a modified version of the Fried phenotype criteria. Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis was used to classify participants according to social

SUBMITTER: Tanabe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10896516 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature