Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study
Spousal bereavement is associated with health declines and increased mortality risk, but its specific impact on physical and cognitive capabilities is less studied. A historical cohort study design was applied including married Tromsø study participants (N=5739) aged 50–70 years with baseline self-r...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/111297 2024-09-15T18:39:22+00:00 Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study ENEngelskEnglishSpousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke 2024-04-15T14:42:45Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/111297 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01150-y EN eng NFR/301958 Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke . Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study. GeroScience. 2024, 1-15 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/111297 2261751 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=GeroScience&rft.volume=&rft.spage=1&rft.date=2024 GeroScience 1 15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01150-y Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 2509-2715 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2024 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01150-y 2024-08-05T14:09:29Z Spousal bereavement is associated with health declines and increased mortality risk, but its specific impact on physical and cognitive capabilities is less studied. A historical cohort study design was applied including married Tromsø study participants (N=5739) aged 50–70 years with baseline self-reported overall health and health-related factors and measured capability (grip strength, finger tapping, digit symbol coding, and short-term recall) at follow-up. Participants had data from Tromsø4 (1994–1995) and Tromsø5 (2001), or Tromsø6 (2007–2008) and Tromsø7 (2015–2016). Propensity score matching, adjusted for baseline confounders (and baseline capability in a subset), was used to investigate whether spousal bereavement was associated with poorer subsequent capability. Spousal bereavement occurred for 6.2% on average 3.7 years (SD 2.0) before the capability assessment. There were no significant bereavement effects on subsequent grip strength, immediate recall, or finger-tapping speed. Without adjustment for baseline digit symbol coding test performance, there was a negative significant effect on the digit symbol coding test (ATT −1.33; 95% confidence interval −2.57, −0.10), but when baseline digit symbol coding test performance was taken into account in a smaller subsample, using the same set of matching confounders, there was no longer any association (in the subsample ATT changed from −1.29 (95% CI −3.38, 0.80) to −0.04 (95% CI −1.83, 1.75). The results in our study suggest that spousal bereavement does not have long-term effects on the intrinsic capacity components physical or cognition capability to a notable degree. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) GeroScience |
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Spousal bereavement is associated with health declines and increased mortality risk, but its specific impact on physical and cognitive capabilities is less studied. A historical cohort study design was applied including married Tromsø study participants (N=5739) aged 50–70 years with baseline self-reported overall health and health-related factors and measured capability (grip strength, finger tapping, digit symbol coding, and short-term recall) at follow-up. Participants had data from Tromsø4 (1994–1995) and Tromsø5 (2001), or Tromsø6 (2007–2008) and Tromsø7 (2015–2016). Propensity score matching, adjusted for baseline confounders (and baseline capability in a subset), was used to investigate whether spousal bereavement was associated with poorer subsequent capability. Spousal bereavement occurred for 6.2% on average 3.7 years (SD 2.0) before the capability assessment. There were no significant bereavement effects on subsequent grip strength, immediate recall, or finger-tapping speed. Without adjustment for baseline digit symbol coding test performance, there was a negative significant effect on the digit symbol coding test (ATT −1.33; 95% confidence interval −2.57, −0.10), but when baseline digit symbol coding test performance was taken into account in a smaller subsample, using the same set of matching confounders, there was no longer any association (in the subsample ATT changed from −1.29 (95% CI −3.38, 0.80) to −0.04 (95% CI −1.83, 1.75). The results in our study suggest that spousal bereavement does not have long-term effects on the intrinsic capacity components physical or cognition capability to a notable degree. |
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Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke |
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Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study |
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Strand, Bjørn Heine Håberg, Asta Eyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif Kok, Almar Skirbekk, Vegard Fykse Huxhold, Oliver Løset, Gøril Kvamme Lennartsson, Carin Schirmer, Henrik Herlofson, Katharina Veenstra, Marijke |
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Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study |
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Spousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø study |
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