Mediating Effect of Social Participation on the Relationship between Incontinence and Depressive Symptoms in Older Chinese Women

Lai, Daniel; Bai, Xue; Guo, Aimei

doi:10.1093/hsw/hlx018

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“…In spite of the literature pointing out that UI leads to restrictions in social participation in our study participation was not a domain in which disability scores were significantly different between incontinent and nonincontinent women. In a study with older incontinent Australian women, the authors found an association between UI and social dysfunction, but they pointed out that this association is not casual; in fact, it is a reflection of general health and overall functioning level of women, exploring a new axis of discussion about this domain and approaching the influence of environmental aspects on it.…”

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Functioning and disability of premenopausal women with urinary incontinence: An assessment by using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule—WHODAS 2.0

Dantas

Castaneda

Correia

et al. 2019

Neurourology and Urodynamics

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Aims To analyze the association between urinary incontinence and disability status in premenopausal women. Materials and Methods The study included 120 premenopausal women recruited from six Basic Family Health Units to participate in this study. We assessed sociodemographic, gynecological, and obstetric data by using specific questions. The International Continence Society's definitions were applied to determine the presence and type of urinary incontinence, and the disability was assessed by using the 36‐item version of the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0. Results The WHODAS scores showed that women with urinary incontinence had a worse disability in cognition (P = .023) and mobility (P = .020) domains, in addition to the total score (P = .23). Women with mixed urinary incontinence had a worse disability in mobility domain (P = .039) than those with stress or urgency incontinence. Qualitative analyses of disability showed a significant difference between women with and without urinary incontinence (P = .033), with higher percentages of incontinent women with moderate and severe disability. Women who reported urinary incontinence had 7.69 more points on the final score of WHODAS than those who did not report this outcome. Conclusions Urinary incontinence in women of reproductive age is associated with disability and worse scores of WHODAS when we compare them to women without urine leakage. The results presented can be useful for designing and adapting strategies for comprehensive care of women with urinary incontinence and disability, and developing rehabilitation programs based on functioning.

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Functioning and disability of premenopausal women with urinary incontinence: An assessment by using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule—WHODAS 2.0

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Castaneda

Correia

et al. 2019

Neurourology and Urodynamics

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“…hearing difficulties) limit social engagement and civic activities (e.g. volunteering) [7, 32, 34–38]. Individual characteristics such as age might influence health effects on activity participation.…”

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Extraversion personality, perceived health and activity participation among community-dwelling aging adults in Hong Kong

Lai

Qin

2018

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Activity participation is essential to the wellbeing of aging adults. Divergent levels of activity participation within aging populations have been explained from diverse perspectives, but the interaction effects of key determinants, such as personality and health, are often ignored. This study examines the effects of extravert personality on aging adults’ activity levels by addressing its interaction with perceived physical health and mental health. A sample of 304 adults aged 50 and older was selected using systematic sampling from participants of an institute for promoting active aging at a university in Hong Kong in 2017. Data on socio-demographic characteristics, perceived physical and mental health, extraversion personality traits, and level of activity participation were collected using a telephone survey. Most participants (46.7%) reported moderate activity levels and over a quarter (26.6%) reported high or low activity levels. Multi-nominal logistic regression analyses show that extraversion was associated with an increased likelihood of reporting moderate (OR = 1.85, p = .036) but not high (p > .05) activity levels when adjusted for perceived physical and mental health and socio-demographics, with low activity levels being the constant comparison. Meanwhile, extraversion predicted both moderate (OR = 3.84, p = .014) and high (OR = 5.06, p = .032) activity levels for participants with poor or average perceived mental health. However, the interaction effects of extraversion with perceived physical health or mental health were not significant in predicting either moderate or high activity levels (p > .05). The implications for enhancing activity participation among aging adults are discussed in view of both personality and perceived health status.

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“…China now boast the world's largest Internet population of 854 million [15], and online participation has become a common method for Chinese citizens to contact political authority and articulate their issues and grievances [16,17]. Moreover, researchers have paid more and more attention to social participation of some specific disadvantaged groups, including older adults [18,19], disabled groups [20,21], and migrant workers [22,23] et al Similar to the findings of other countries, many researches confirm that social participation contributes to Chinese health [24], including mental health [25,26], and political trust [27]. However, as another relatively vulnerable group (due to the separateness of their onboard and shorebound lives), merchant sailors' social participation has been seldom examined and is little known in the Chinese context, although China has the largest population of registered sailors in the world [28].…”

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Willingness to engage in and current status of social participation among Chinese merchant sailors

Wang

Shi

et al. 2020

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China has the largest population of sailors in the world, but little is known of their social participation. This study examined Chinese merchant sailors’ social participation using a nationwide survey. Across 12 Chinese provinces, 7,296 merchant sailors completed the questionnaire on sailor' willingness to engage in and status of social participation. The results showed that most Chinese merchant sailors were willing to participate in social affairs, but few of them reported having joined relevant social organizations, over half of sailors reported never having participated in public affairs, and half of them chose to ignore when they faced with an obvious mistake in shipping-related information in the media. Most of sailors reported unknowing the role of the labor union related to Chinese seafarers and NGO related to navigation well, and their evaluation of these organizations were mostly negative. Chinese merchant sailors reported higher expectations of services in terms of protection of rights, providing information and technology, and providing employment opportunity. We conclude that Chinese merchant sailors have willingness to social participation although the reality is not positive and discuss implications for improving the social participation of Chinese merchant sailors.

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Mediating Effect of Social Participation on the Relationship between Incontinence and Depressive Symptoms in Older Chinese Women

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Functioning and disability of premenopausal women with urinary incontinence: An assessment by using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule—WHODAS 2.0

Functioning and disability of premenopausal women with urinary incontinence: An assessment by using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule—WHODAS 2.0

Extraversion personality, perceived health and activity participation among community-dwelling aging adults in Hong Kong

Willingness to engage in and current status of social participation among Chinese merchant sailors

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