Associations of functional disability and behavioural risk factors with social participation of older adults: a cross-sectional analysis from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine: (1) the associations of functional disability and behavioural risk factors with social participation; and (2) whether the association between functional disability and social participation is modified by co-occurrence of behavioural risk factors.

Design

A cross-sectional analysis of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Setting

A national stratified sample of 51 388 individuals living in the 10 Canadian provinces at the time of baseline data collection (2011-2015).

Participants

Participants included men and women aged 45-85 years and residing in the communities in the 10 Canadian provinces.

Outcome measures

Social participation was assessed using frequency of participant involvement in eight different social activitie

SUBMITTER: Raina P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8772424 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature