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Temporally-Oriented Subjective Well-being Across Transitions-Resources & Outcomes

NCT01583946 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 793

Last updated 2016-06-09

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Summary

As individuals age, they undergo transitions in many aspects of their lives. These transitions include social, economic and health transitions. People review their lives, and reflect on past choices. Future time is limited by the increasing proximity to end of life. This may lead to regrets and, in people with the ability to use compensatory mechanisms, a redoubling of efforts to achieve valued goals or a reprioritization of valued goals. In the context of aging, individuals' past, present, and future-oriented subjective well-being (SWB) may change. There is an incomplete understanding of the relationship of SWB, intra- and inter-personal resources, and outcomes, (particularly health and healthcare-cost outcomes). These issues have complicated the use of SWB measures and the investigators are left with traditional metrics such as life expectancy, infant mortality, wealth, and poverty to assess healthy aging, resulting in an incomplete picture of healthy aging. This project will examine the relationships among SWB, intra- and inter-personal resources, and health and healthcare-cost outcomes. It will advance the understanding of SWB and its role in healthy aging in order to assist policy makers in valuing the potential benefits of improving SWB on health and healthcare costs. The investigators will accomplish this through the following specific aim:

Aim 1: To determine how SWB (past, present, and future-oriented): (1) is affected by life transitions, and (2) affects outcomes after life transitions.

Conditions

  • Quality of Life

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of Pittsburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rachel Hess, MD, MS · University of Pittsburgh

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2016-05-31
Completion
2016-05-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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