Influence of healthy lifestyle behaviors on life satisfaction in the aging population of Thailand: a national population-based survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the influence of healthy lifestyle behaviors on population-level life satisfaction is few known in the aging population, especially in low- and middle-income countries in Asia. The objective of our study was to analyse the association of lifestyle behaviors with life satisfaction in a nationally-representative sample of older persons in Thailand.

Methods

The sample was obtained from a baseline phase of a nationally-representative, longitudinal survey of the Thai population. The study employed a multistage sampling technique to recruit study participants age 60 years or older from the five geographic regions of Thailand. In this study, 1460 adults age 60 years or older from 3670 households successfully completed face-to-face interviews by trained staf

SUBMITTER: Phulkerd S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789197 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature