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Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

poor diet quality is common among older people, but little is known about influences on food choice, including the role of psychosocial factors at this age.

Objective

to identify psychosocial correlates of diet quality in a community-dwelling population of men and women aged 59-73 years; to describe relationships with change in diet quality over 10 years.

Design

Longitudinal cohort, Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS).

Subjects

HCS participants assessed at baseline (1998-2003: 1,048 men, 862 women); 183 men and 189 women re-assessed in 2011.

Methods

diet was assessed by administered food frequency questionnaire; diet scores were calculated to describe diet quality at baseline and follow-up. A range of psychosocial factors (social support, social network, participation in leisure activities, depression and anxiety, sense of control) were assessed by questionnaire.

Results

at baseline, better diet quality was related to a range of social factors, including increased confiding/emotional social support (men and women), practical support (men) and a larger social network (women) (all P < 0.05). For both men and women, greater participation in social and cognitive leisure activities was related to better diet quality (P < 0.005). There were few associations between measured psychosocial factors at baseline and change in diet score over 10 years, in the follow-up sub-group. However, greater participation in leisure activities, especially cognitive activities, at baseline was associated with smaller declines in diet quality over the 10-year follow-up period for both men (P = 0.017) and women (P = 0.014).

Conclusions

in community-dwelling older adults, a range of social factors, that includes greater participation in leisure activities, were associated with diets of better quality.

SUBMITTER: Bloom I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390861 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors.

Bloom Ilse I Edwards Mark M Jameson Karen A KA Syddall Holly E HE Dennison Elaine E Gale Catharine R CR Baird Janis J Cooper Cyrus C Aihie Sayer Avan A Robinson Sian S

Age and ageing 20170301 2

<h4>Background</h4>poor diet quality is common among older people, but little is known about influences on food choice, including the role of psychosocial factors at this age.<h4>Objective</h4>to identify psychosocial correlates of diet quality in a community-dwelling population of men and women aged 59-73 years; to describe relationships with change in diet quality over 10 years.<h4>Design</h4>Longitudinal cohort, Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS).<h4>Subjects</h4>HCS participants assessed at ba ...[more]

PMID: 27744301

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Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors.

Background

Objective

Design

Subjects

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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Influences on diet quality in older age: the importance of social factors.

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