Feeling Younger in Rural Burkina Faso: Exploring the Role of Subjective Age in the Light of Previous Research From High-Income Countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Previous research on subjective age (SA), that is, how young or old a person feels relative to their chronological age, has shown that older adults tend to feel younger than they are (by about 15%-20%), but the extent of this effect depends, in part, on their health. However, as most of the studies have been conducted in Western countries, it is unclear how well these results generalize to culturally different samples. Objectives, therefore, were to examine SA in middle-aged and older adults from a very low-income setting in rural Burkina Faso, to examine associations between SA and health/quality of life-related measures, and to compare findings with Western studies.

Methods

Representative, cross-sectional sample of N = 3,028 adults (≥40 years, recruited in 2018)

SUBMITTER: Schonstein A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8599075 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature