Does Loneliness Increase the Risk of Getting Health Problems Among Disabled Person?

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10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.011How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disability, Health, IFLS, Loneliness, Quality of life

Abstract

People with a disability commonly experienced the loneliness that considered as a risk factor for chronic diseases. This study conducted to examine the association between loneliness and health status of disabled people. A cross-sectional study included 2925 people with a disability who participated in the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2014 - 2015 and had completed data. Loneliness and health status obtained from book 3B and US in IFLS wave 5 dataset. Multiple logistic regression performed to analyze the data. This study found that 11.1% of respondents felt lonely (moderate to most of the time). Having vision problem had the highest proportion of being lonely. Feeling lonely most of the time had a higher risk for getting unhealthy condition (aOR 2.68; 95% CI 1.76 – 4.08) after controlled by age, sex, marital status, body mass index, and smoking behavior. Loneliness was associated with poorer health status. Social support needed to make the disabled person satisfy with their life and encourage them to keep healthy.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Tika Dwi Tama
AU  - Erni Astutik
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/04
TI  - Does Loneliness Increase the Risk of Getting Health Problems Among Disabled Person?
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Meeting on Public Health and Sports (ISMOPHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 58
EP  - 63
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.011
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.011
ID  - Tama2020
ER  -