Status of social support and influencing factors among Chinese elderly aged 60 years and over: a meta-analysis
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-0815.2018.03.010
- VernacularTitle:2000至2017年中国60岁以上老年人社会支持状况及其影响因素的Meta分析
- Author:
Zhijian XU
1
;
Yusheng ZHOU
;
Cheng YU
;
Wenbin WANG
;
Meng E
;
Kepeng XIU
Author Information
1. 即墨市丰城卫生院公共卫生科
- Keywords:
Aged;
Social support;
Meta-analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Health Management
2018;12(3):243-251
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To understand the current status of social support among the elderly,aged ≥60 years,as well as to identify influencing factors and to provide a reference for relevant health care services.Methods Publications about social support of the elderly were collected by searching the database of CNKI,VIP,Wanfang Data,Pubmed,and Web of Science.A random effects model was employed according to the results of heterogeneity (I2＞50％) to pool the extracted data.Results Thirty-two articles were included,with a total sample of 21 763 articles.Total scores of social support and three dimensions were low,with social support of 34.047 (95％CI:32.532-35.563),subjective support of 19.218 (95％CI:17.589-20.846),objective support of 7.787 (95％CI:7.483-8.091),and support utilization of 7.075 (95％CI:6.884-7.266).Scores of elderly with character of high age (aged 80:30.907,95％CI:28.378-33.436),female (32.512,95％CI:30.723-34.300),low education (illiteracy:32.088,95％CI:30.944-33.231;primary school:32.709,95％CI:30.069-35.349),country side (33.780,95％CI:31.523-36.038),empty nest (32.301,95％CI:27.061-37.542) and incomplete marriage (discoverture:27.044,95％CI:24.652-29.437;divorced:29.159,95％CI:24.520-33.791) was lower than the others.Conclusions The current status of social support is not optimistic.Scores of social support and its dimensions were relatively low,and a significant difference was found between elderly of different character,indicating that health interventions should be implemented based on character.
