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随着中国人口老龄化进程加快，健康老龄化成为重要议题。2020年底，国家卫健委、全国老龄委办公室发

布通知，提出到2025年在全国建成5000个示范性城乡老年友好型社区的目标。老年友好型社区具备哪些

特征？他们与老年人的心理健康是否相关？今天小编与大家分享一篇着眼于该领域的研究。

 

文章选自《Journal of Affective Disorders 》的“Age-friendly neighbourhoods and depression

among older people in China: Evidence from China Family Panel Studies ”。该研究基于CFPS

数据，由来自湖北省荆门市第一人民医院和南安普顿大学的两位学者合作完成。作者们发现社区里的健身

和娱乐器材越多，居民对社区环境评价越好，老年人抑郁水平越低，但它们之间的关系也受居民自身各种

特征的影响。详情请您阅读英文原文。

 

JOURNAL

 

《 Journal of Affective Disorders 》May , 2021

 

DOI

 

10.1016/j.jad.2021.02.081

 

AUTHOR

 

Peng Lei ^a ；Zhixin Feng ^b *

a. The First People's Hospital of Jingmen  b.  University of Southampton

 

 

Age-friendly neighbourhoods and depression among older people in China: 

Evidence from China Family Panel Studies

 

ABSTRACT

 

Background

Older population with depression symptoms reached about 64 million in China. Under

the World Health Organization's (WHO) age-friendly communities framework, this

study explored relationships between neighbourhood environment characteristics and

depressive symptoms among community-dwelling older adults in China.

 

Methods

Data were obtained from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), a national multi-

stage probability sample in China. The final analytic sample comprised 5,641 older

dults in China. Neighbourhood environment characteristics were measured in three

ways: objective facilities, interviewers’ evaluation, and respondents’ own

perceptions on the neighbourhood environment. Depressive symptoms were measured

by the 20-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale

(CES-D). Multilevel regression models were applied.

 

Results

Neighbourhoods with more exercise and recreational facilities, better interviewers’

evaluations, and better objective respondents’ perceptions on neighbourhood

environment at a neighbourhood level were significantly negatively associated with

depressive symptoms, but these association were influenced by respondents’

demographic characteristics, socioeconomic status and respondents’ own perceptions

of neighbourhood environment at the individual level. On the other hand, respondents’

subjective positive perceptions of neighbourhood environment at the individual level

were also significantly negatively associated with depressive symptoms.

 

Limitations

The actual conditions of affordability, accessibility and utilization of public facilities

and social services within neighbourhoods were not known.

 

Conclusions

This research extended the current knowledge of the associations between neighbour-

hoods and mental health among older adults, to promote ageing in place in China. Great

importance should be attached to the improvement of both physical and social aspects of

the neighbourhoods to develop age-friendly communities.

 

KEYWORDS

 

Depression; Mental health; Neighbourhoods; Age friendliness; Older population

 

DATA

 

Data from CFPS 2014

 

 

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