Mild Cognitive Impairment, Religiosity, Spirituality and all-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults in Ethnic Minority Communities

Mengyun Xiong; Wanrui Ma; Xue Hu; Yan Tong; Zhehao He; Qiuhui Lei; Harold G Koenig; Zhizhong Wang

doi:10.1007/s10943-024-02149-7

Mild Cognitive Impairment, Religiosity, Spirituality and all-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults in Ethnic Minority Communities

J Relig Health. 2024 Oct 4. doi: 10.1007/s10943-024-02149-7. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Mengyun Xiong^{1

2}, Wanrui Ma², Xue Hu¹, Yan Tong³, Zhehao He¹, Qiuhui Lei¹, Harold G Koenig^{4

5}, Zhizhong Wang^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health at, Guangdong Medical University, Xincheng Road, Songshanhu District, Dongguan, 523808, Guangdong Province, China.
² Department of Geriatrics, the First Dongguan Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, 523710, China.
³ Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030000, China.
⁴ Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC27710, USA.
⁵ Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, 21589, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health at, Guangdong Medical University, Xincheng Road, Songshanhu District, Dongguan, 523808, Guangdong Province, China. [email protected].
⁷ Department of Geriatrics, the First Dongguan Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Dongguan, 523710, China. [email protected].

PMID: 39365426
DOI: 10.1007/s10943-024-02149-7

Abstract

The relationship between mild cognitive impairment (MCI), religiosity and/or spirituality (R/S), and all-cause mortality among older adults has yet to be clarified. The current study aims to examine this relationship using a longitudinal cohort from ethnic minority communities in mainland China. The Cox proportional hazards regression modeling revealed that MCI predicted an increased risk of all-cause mortality, and high R/S buffered this association. Those findings suggest that a religious-spiritual integrated community intervention program may reduce the mortality risk in older adults with MCI in ethnically disadvantaged populations.

Keywords: All-cause mortality; Mainland China; Mild cognitive impairment; Religiosity; Spirituality; Successful aging.

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