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The Relation Between Pet Ownership, Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms in Late Life: Propensity Score Matched Analyses

机译：养宠物的关系、焦虑和生活:年末抑郁症状倾向分数匹配分析

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The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in anxiety and depressive symptoms between older adult pet owners and non-pet owners after accounting for various correlates. Research findings on the anxiety-relieving and antidepressant effects of late-life pet ownership are mixed and limited. This may be due in part to various characteristics that impact the likelihood of owning a pet. Propensity score matching was used to pair 169 pet owners with 169 non-pet owners aged 70-91 years who participated in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Study of Aging. One set of propensity scores was created using age, sex, race, rurality, marital status, and income, as well as self-reported health, difficulty with activities of daily living, and difficulty with instrumental activities of daily living. A second set of scores was created using age, sex, race, rurality, marital status, and income. Multiple linear regression analyses were then used to explore the relation between pet ownership status and anxiety or depressive symptoms, controlling for the other symptoms. Pet ownership was significantly associated with lower self-reported anxiety symptoms (beta = -0.14) but not depressive symptoms (beta = -0.03) in the data matched without health variables. When propensity score matching included health variables, pet ownership was related to neither symptoms of anxiety (beta = -0.08) nor depression (beta = 0.05). These results suggest that owning a pet in later life is related to fewer anxiety symptoms, over and above the impact of depressive symptoms, even after accounting for various demographic and economic covariates. However, general and functional health appear to be critical to this relation, but the direction of this relation could not be determined from our analyses (i.e., it is not clear whether the relation between pet ownership and anxiety symptoms is confounded by, mediates, or is mediated by health). This study is the first large-scale analysis to find a significant relation between pet ownership and fewer anxiety symptoms in older adults.
机译：本研究的目的是探索焦虑和抑郁症状的差异年长的成年宠物主人和其他不养宠物的人之间在考虑了各种关联。发现anxiety-relieving和老年养宠物带来的抗抑郁作用是复杂的和有限的。各种各样的特征影响养宠物的可能性。匹配被用来对169年与169年宠物主人无宠物者年龄在70 - 91年参与伯明翰阿拉巴马大学的研究的衰老。创建使用年龄、性别、种族、田园风光、婚姻状态,和收入,以及自我报告健康,日常活动困难生活,在仪器和困难日常生活活动。成绩是用年龄、性别、种族、田园生活、婚姻状况和收入。线性回归分析被用于探索饲养宠物状态之间的关系和焦虑或抑郁症状、控制其他症状。显著降低自我报告焦虑症状(β= -0.14),但不是抑郁症状(β= -0.03)的数据匹配没有健康变量。分数匹配包括健康变量,宠物所有权有关的症状焦虑(β= -0.08)和抑郁(β=0.05)。以后的生活与更少的焦虑症状,超过抑郁症状的影响,即使为各种人口统计和会计经济的协变量。功能性健康似乎是至关重要的关系,但这种关系的方向不能确定从我们的分析(例如,目前尚不清楚是否宠物之间的关系所有权和焦虑症状混淆了,协调,或者是由健康)。是第一个大规模分析找到一个重要的宠物所有权和之间的关系更少的焦虑症状的老年人。

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