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| Influence of personality and health behaviors on fatigue in late and very late life | | Author(s) | Peter Martin, Alex Bishop, Leonard Poon |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 3, May 2006 |
| Pages | pp P161-P166 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Personality ; Health [elderly] ; Stress ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | There is limited understanding about variables associated with fatigue in late and very late life. This study explored longitudinal influences of personality and health behaviours on changes in fatigue. 178 participants of the Georgia Centenarian Study were part of this study. Multiple regression analyses were computed to assess the influence of personality, physical activity, stress management, and nutritional risk on fatigue, after controlling for initial fatigue, self-reported health, and psychosocial variables. Anxiety, physical activity and nutritional risk had significant longitudinal effects on fatigue. Older people who were anxious, less engaged in physical activity and who had higher levels of nutritional risk were more likely to show increased fatigue levels. The results suggest that more clinical and research attention should be paid to changes of fatigue in older populations.(RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504209 A |
| Classmark | DK: CC: QNH: 49: 3J: 7T |
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