Religiousness and Longitudinal Trajectories in Elders' Functional Status
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of religiousness on the trajectories of difficulties with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental ADLs (IADLs) in community-dwelling older adults over a three-year period. Seven waves of data from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging were analyzed using a hierarchical linear modeling method. The study was based on the 784 participants who completed interviews every six months between December 1999 and February 2004. Frequent religious service attendance was associated with fewer ADL difficulties and IADL difficulties at baseline. Furthermore, religious service attendance predicted slower increases for frequent churchgoers and steeper increases for less frequent churchgoers in IADL difficulties, controlling for variables related to demographics and resources. Religious service attendance was independently associated with ADL and IADL difficulties cross-sectionally. However, significant protective effects of religious service attendance were identified longitudinally only for the IADL trajectory.
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Considering the 33 highest quality studies, 13 (39%) reported significantly better physical functioning among those who were more R/S (including one study at a trend level).
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- Authors
- Park, N. S., Klemmack, D. L., Roff, L. L., Parker, M. W., Koenig, H. G., Sawyer, P., & Allman, R. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Alabama (US)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Venue
- Research on Aging
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-02-08
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 279-298
- ISSN
- 0164-0275 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-7573
- PMC
- PMC2871343
- OpenAlex
- W1978672604
- Cited by
- 77
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 1.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Research on Aging (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG015062)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Aging, Health, and Disability
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Keywords
- religiosity, religious service attendance, functional status, activities of daily living, instrumental activities of daily living, older adults, community-dwelling older adults, functional decline trajectories, aging
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