Table 1 |
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Types of social networks |
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Diverse with community participation |
Diverse without community participation |
Widowed |
Nonfriends-restricted |
Nonfamily-restricted |
Total |
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n = 404 |
n = 1484 |
n = 1071 |
n = 255 |
n = 134 |
n = 3348 |
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Total number of family members, mean (SD)a |
6.3 (3.0) |
6.8 (2.9) |
6.3 (3.2) |
7.3 (2.9) |
1.2 (1.3) |
6.4 (3.2) |
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Having life partner,% |
49.8 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
53.3 |
32.8 |
55.7 |
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Having children, % |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
96.0 |
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Having friends, % |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
0.0 |
93.3 |
92.1 |
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Belonging to a community group,% |
100.0 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
9.2 |
11.2 |
13.2 |
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Frequency of contact with familyb, mean (SD) |
7.1 (2.4) |
7.9 (1.4) |
6.6 (2.6) |
6.9 (2.4) |
5.8 (2.8) |
7.2 (2.2) |
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Frequency of contact with friendsc, mean (SD) |
3.9 (1.2) |
3.5 (1.3) |
3.5 (1.4) |
0.0 (0.1) |
3.3 (1.7) |
3.3 (1.6) |
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a SD - Standard deviation bFrequency of personal contact with family, scale of 0 to 10: sum of contacts with family living inside (0-5) and outside (0-5) of the home of the elderly adult. cFrequency of personal contact with friends, scale of 0 to 5: 0 = no contact, 1 = less than monthly contact, 2 = monthly, 3 = every two weeks, 4 = weekly and 5 = daily. |
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Doubova (Dubova) et al. BMC Public Health 2010 10:104 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-10-104 |
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