Association between Experience of Pet Ownership and Psychological Health among Socially Isolated and Non-Isolated Older Adults.
cat ownership
dog ownership
older adult
psychological health
social isolation
Journal
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 Feb 2021
24 Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
01
02
2021
revised:
17
02
2021
accepted:
18
02
2021
entrez:
6
3
2021
pubmed:
7
3
2021
medline:
7
3
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The psychological health effects of pet ownership have been widely studied, but only a few studies investigated its impact among socially isolated older adults. The present study aims to investigate the psychological health of older adults with or without the experience of pet (i.e., dog or cat) ownership who are socially isolated or not socially isolated. This study used cross-sectional data from 9856 community-dwelling older adults in a metropolitan area of Japan. Social and non-social isolation and type of pet ownership (i.e., dog or cat) were stratified to examine the psychological health. Logistic regression models indicated that, after adjusting for demographic and potential confounders, socially isolated older adults who never owned a dog were 1.22 times more likely to report lower psychological health in comparison to socially isolated current or past dog owners. No such difference was observed among cat owners. The results suggest that the experience of dog ownership may be effective to improve the psychological health among socially isolated older adult.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33668283
pii: ani11030595
doi: 10.3390/ani11030595
pmc: PMC7996149
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Subventions
Organisme : Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKEN
ID : 16K16615
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