Association between disability and cognitive function in older Chinese people: a moderated mediation of social relationships and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many previous studies have found that disability leads to cognitive impairment, and in order to better understand the underlying mechanisms between disability and cognitive impairment, the present study aimed to investigate the moderating role of social relationships, including their role as mediators between disability and cognitive impairment in depressive symptoms.

Study design

This is a cross-sectional study.

Methods

A total of 5,699 Chinese older adults from the 2018 China Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) were included in this study, and PROCESS macro was used to perform simple mediator and moderator mediator analyses, which were used to analyze the relationship between depressive symptoms and social relationships between disability and cog

SUBMITTER: Ai F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11058663 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature