Perceived neighborhood social cohesion and subsequent health and well-being in older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Growing research documents associations between neighborhood social cohesion with better health and well-being. However, other work has identified social cohesion's "dark side" and its ability to promote negative outcomes. It remains unclear if such diverging findings are attributable to differences in study design, or other reasons. To better capture its potential heterogeneous effects, we took an outcome-wide analytic approach to examine perceived neighborhood social cohesion in relation to a range of health and well-being outcomes.

Methods

Data were from 12,998 participants in the Health and Retirement Study-a large, diverse, prospective, and nationally representative cohort of U.S. adults age >50. Multiple regression models evaluated if social cohesion was ass

SUBMITTER: Kim ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7686282 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature