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KMID : 0379220210410030397
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2021 Volume.41 No. 3 p.397 ~ p.420
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Volunteering, Hypertension Risks, and Related Phenomena: A Prospective Cohort Study
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Lee Hyun-Kee
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Abstract
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The paper tried to determine relationships between volunteering and hypertension risks, symptom betterment, activity difficulty occurrences, and medicine treatment among middle-aged and older adults, with a prospective cohort study. Multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear models were used for the analysis of longitudinal panel data collected over 10 years from 2008 to 2018, using 5,867 cohort samples.
The results showed that those who volunteered at least 200 hours per year were 3.4 times more lower than not-volunteering in risks of hypertension, those who volunteered yearly 50~99 hours were a lot more improved than not-volunteering in the symptom betterment, those who volunteered yearly at least 200 hours were 7.7 times lower than not-volunteering in activity difficulty occurrences, and those who volunteered yearly 50~99 hours were 2.5 times lower than not-volunteering in the occurrences of medicine treatment. These indicate that volunteering among middle-aged and older adults may have health benefits against incident hypertension. Finally the thesis discusses the study limitations, future directions of studies, and the practices implications.
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KEYWORD
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Volunteering, Hypertension Risks, Health Benefits, Prospective Cohort Study, Longitudinal Study
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