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dc.contributor.authorStrand, Bjørn Heine
dc.contributor.authorHåberg, Asta
dc.contributor.authorEyjólfsdóttir, Harpa Sif
dc.contributor.authorKok, Almar
dc.contributor.authorSkirbekk, Vegard Fykse
dc.contributor.authorHuxhold, Oliver
dc.contributor.authorLøset, Gøril Kvamme
dc.contributor.authorLennartsson, Carin
dc.contributor.authorSchirmer, Henrik
dc.contributor.authorHerlofson, Katharina
dc.contributor.authorVeenstra, Marijke
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-10T06:22:50Z
dc.date.available2024-06-10T06:22:50Z
dc.date.created2024-04-15T14:42:45Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationGeroScience. 2024, 1-15.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2509-2715
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/3133178
dc.description.abstractSpousal bereavement is associated with health declines and increased mortality risk, but its specific impact on physical and cognitive capabili- ties is less studied. A historical cohort study design was applied including married Tromsø study partici- pants (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 capa- bility in a subset), was used to investigate whether spousal bereavement was associated with poorer sub- sequent capability. Spousal bereavement occurred for 6.2% on average 3.7 years (SD 2.0) before the capa- bility assessment. There were no significant bereave- ment 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 sym- bol coding test performance was taken into account in a smaller subsample, using the same set of match- ing 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 capac- ity components physical or cognition capability to a notable degree.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleSpousal bereavement and its effects on later life physical and cognitive capability: the Tromsø studyen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11357-024-01150-y
dc.identifier.cristin2261751
dc.source.journalGeroScienceen_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-15en_US
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 301958en_US


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