National Social Life Health and Aging Project: Wave 3

描述(由申请者提供)：国家社会生活、健康和老龄化项目(NSHAP)是一项针对老年人的纵向研究，旨在研究社会因素(如亲密关系、社交网络)影响健康和受健康影响的机制。2005-2006年，问卷和生物测量数据来自具有全国代表性的3,005名57-85岁社区成年人(W1)的样本。这些被引用的受访者在2010-11年度与共同居住的配偶/伴侣(W2)一起接受了重新访谈。我们寻求资金在2015-16年度重新访问所有在世的受访者和W2配偶/伴侣(W3)。这第三波将允许NSHAP研究人员和更广泛的研究社区：1)测试关系牢固、功能正常的老年人有更好的健康轨迹这一首要假设；2)检查那些经历了从W1到W2的重大社会或健康事件的人在W3的反应；3)探索在更大的背景下(即夫妇、家庭、家庭、社区)产生和维持健康和社会关系的程度；以及4)估计社会关系对健康的影响的因果模型，反之亦然。虽然NSHAP的W1和W2提供了广泛的健康和社会信息，但W3将允许研究人员在社会背景下追踪个人和亲密伙伴的健康和死亡途径。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is a longitudinal study of older adults designed to examine mechanisms by which social factors (e.g., intimate relationships, social networks) affect and are affected by health. I 2005-06, questionnaire and biomeasure data were collected from a nationally-representative sample of 3,005 community-dwelling adults 57-85 (W1). These referent respondents were reinterviewed in 2010-11, together with coresident spouses/partners (W2). We seek funding to reinterview all surviving referent respondents and W2 spouses/partners in 2015-16 (W3). This third wave will allow NSHAP investigators and the broader research community to: 1) test the overarching hypothesis that older adults with strong, functioning relationships have better health trajectories; 2) examine how those who experience a major social or health event from W1 to W2 respond in W3; 3) explore the extent to which health and social relationships are produced and maintained in a larger context (i.e., couple, household, family, community); and 4) estimate causal models of the effect of social relationships on health and vice versa. While NSHAP's W1 and W2 provide extensive health and social information, W3 will allow researchers to trace pathways of health and mortality for individuals and intimate partnerships within social context.