作者: Beverly R. Williams , Patricia Sawyer , Jeffrey M. Roseman , Richard M. Allman
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摘要: ABSTRACT Background: Health and function vary by marital status across the life-course, but little is known about older adults approaching spousal loss (pre-widowed). Objective: To explore health focusing on pre-widowed to examine factors associated with shorter time loss. Participants, design, measurements: We used 3 years of data from African American white community-dwelling in UAB Study Aging (N = 1000). Participants were categorized as “continuously married” (married at baseline years), “widowed” (widowed baseline), “single” (never married/divorced); “pre-widowed” widowed within years). Assessments included sociodemographic characteristics, measures depression, anxiety, life-space mobility, self-reported health. χ2 analysis variance (ANOVA) differences. Using Cox regression, we explored having independent significant associat...