Journal Article

DZNE-2025-00754

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Low income, being without employment, and living alone: how they are associated with cognitive functioning-Results from the German national cohort (NAKO).

Rodriguez, F. S. (First author)DZNE* ; Röhr, S. ; Dragano, N. ; Schmidt, B. ; Becher, H. ; Schikowski, T. ; Gastell, S. ; Harth, V. ; Hoven, H. ; Linseisen, J. ; Greiser, K. H. ; Leitzmann, M. ; Bohmann, P. ; Castell, S. ; Heise, J.-K. ; Krist, L. ; Keil, T. ; Karch, A. ; Teismann, H. ; Moreno Velásquez, I. ; Pischon, T. ; Peters, A. ; Führer, A. ; Mikolajczyk, R. ; Günther, K. ; Brand, T. ; Meinke-Franze, C. ; Schipf, S. ; Grabe, H. J.DZNE* ; Brenner, H. ; Koch-Gallenkamp, L. ; Berger, K. ; Wagner, M.DZNE* ; Katzke, V. ; Lieb, W. ; Pabst, A. ; Riedel-Heller, S. G.

2025
Swets & Zeitlinger Lisse

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Abstract: Aim was to investigate to what extent cognitive functioning differs by three socioeconomic conditions: low income, being without employment, and living alone. A total of N = 158,144 participants of the population-based German National Cohort (NAKO) provided data on socioeconomic conditions and completed cognitive tests. Multivariable confounder-adjusted regression analyses indicated that cognitive functioning was lower in those with low income (b = -0.21) compared to not having low income, living alone (b = -0.04) compared to not living alone, and being without employment (b = -0.09) compared to being employed. An interaction with age indicated that the difference in cognitive functioning was getting larger with age between the income groups and living alone status groups. Accordingly, the three conditions appear independently associated with poorer cognitive functioning. Pathways of how cognitive health in this population group can be improved need to be explored.

Keyword(s): Humans (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Germany (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Middle Aged (MeSH) ; Employment: statistics & numerical data (MeSH) ; Cohort Studies (MeSH) ; Cognition (MeSH) ; Aged (MeSH) ; Adult (MeSH) ; Poverty: psychology (MeSH) ; Income (MeSH) ; Age Factors (MeSH) ; Socioeconomic ; cognitive functioning ; living alone ; low income ; poverty ; unemployment

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Psychosocial Epidemiology and Public Health (AG Rodriguez)
2. Neuropsychology (AG Wagner)
3. Biomarkers of Dementia in the General Population (AG Grabe)

Research Program(s):

1. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) (POF4-353)

Appears in the scientific report 2025

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; Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List ; Current Contents - Social and Behavioral Sciences ; Ebsco Academic Search ; Essential Science Indicators ; IF < 5 ; JCR ; Nationallizenz ; SCOPUS ; Social Sciences Citation Index

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Low income, being without employment, and living alone: How they are associated with cognitive functioning - Results from the German National Cohort (NAKO)
202417th European Public Health Conference 2024 Sailing the Waves of European Public Health: Exploring a Sea of Innovation, LisbonLisbon, Portugal, 12 Nov 2024 - 15 Nov 20242024-11-122024-11-15 European journal of public health 34(Supplement_3), ckae144.497 (2024) [10.1093/eurpub/ckae144.497]2024   Files BibTeX | EndNote: XML, Text | RIS

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