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| Quality of life (QOL) of older adult community choral singers in Finland | | Author(s) | Julene K Johnson, Jukka Louhivouri, Anita L Stewart |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 25, no 7, July 2013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, July 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1055-1064 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/ipg |
| Keywords | Choirs ; Vocal music ; Participation ; Mental health [elderly] ; Depression ; Quality of life ; Finland. |
| Annotation | Enhancing quality of life (QOL) of older adults has been an international area of focus for several decades. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between perceived benefits associated with choral singing and QOL among community-dwelling older adults. 117 older adults who sang in community choirs in Jyväskylä, Finland, completed self-report measures of QOL (WHOQOL-Bref), depressive symptoms and a questionnaire about the benefits of singing in a choir. Correlational analyses and linear regression models were used to examine the association between the benefits of choir singing and QOL. Both correlation and regression analyses found significant relationships between the benefits of choral singing and three QOL domains: psychological, social relationships and environment. These associations remained significant after adjusting for age and depressive symptoms. As hypothesised, older choral singers who reported greater benefits of choir singing had higher QOL in multiple domains. The older choral singers in the study also reported few symptoms of depression and high overall QOL and satisfaction with health. These results suggest that singing in a community choir as an older adult may positively influence several aspects of QOL. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130628209 A |
| Classmark | HH8: HH6: TMB: D: ENR: F:59: 76L |
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