Development of a common scale for measuring healthy ageing across the world: results from the ATHLOS consortium.


Por: Sánchez-Niubó A, Forero CG, Wu YT, Giné-Vázquez I, Prina M, De La Fuente J, Daskalopoulou C, Critselis E, De La Torre-Luque A, Panagiotakos D, Arndt H, Ayuso-Mateos JL, Bayes I, Bickenbach J, Bobak M, Caballero FF, Chatterji S, Egea-Cortés L, García-Esquinas E, Leonardi M, Koskinen S, Koupil I, Mellor-Marsá B, Olaya B, Pajak A, Prince M, Raggi A, Rodríguez-Artalejo F, Sanderson W, Scherbov S, Tamosiunas A, Tobias-Adamczyk B, Tyrovolas S and Haro JM

Publicada: 9 jul 2021 Ahead of Print: 4 dic 2020
Resumen:
BACKGROUND: Research efforts to measure the concept of healthy ageing have been diverse and limited to specific populations. This diversity limits the potential to compare healthy ageing across countries and/or populations. In this study, we developed a novel measurement scale of healthy ageing using worldwide cohorts. METHODS: In the Ageing Trajectories of Health-Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS) project, data from 16 international cohorts were harmonized. Using ATHLOS data, an item response theory (IRT) model was used to develop a scale with 41 items related to health and functioning. Measurement heterogeneity due to intra-dataset specificities was detected, applying differential item functioning via a logistic regression framework. The model accounted for specificities in model parameters by introducing cohort-specific parameters that rescaled scores to the main scale, using an equating procedure. Final scores were estimated for all individuals and converted to T-scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10. RESULTS: A common scale was created for 343 915 individuals above 18 years of age from 16 studies. The scale showed solid evidence of concurrent validity regarding various sociodemographic, life and health factors, and convergent validity with healthy life expectancy (r = 0.81) and gross domestic product (r = 0.58). Survival curves showed that the scale could also be predictive of mortality. CONCLUSIONS: The ATHLOS scale, due to its reliability and global representativeness, has the potential to contribute to worldwide research on healthy ageing.

Filiaciones:
Sánchez-Niubó A:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Forero CG:
 Department of Medicine, International University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Wu YT:
 Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK

Giné-Vázquez I:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Prina M:
 Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK

 Global Health Institute, King's College London, London, UK

De La Fuente J:
 Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS Princesa), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Daskalopoulou C:
 Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK

Critselis E:
 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

De La Torre-Luque A:
 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

 Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS Princesa), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Panagiotakos D:
 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Sciences and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

Arndt H:
 Spring Techno GMBH & Co. KG, Bremen, Germany

Ayuso-Mateos JL:
 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

 Department of Psychiatry, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS Princesa), Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain

Bayes I:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Bickenbach J:
 Swiss Paraplegic Research, Guido A. Zäch Institute (GZI), Nottwil, Switzerland

 Department of Health Sciences & Health Policy, University of Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland

Bobak M:
 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK

Caballero FF:
 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Idipaz, Madrid, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Chatterji S:
 Information, Evidence and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

García-Esquinas E:
 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Idipaz, Madrid, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Leonardi M:
 Neurology, Public Health, Disability Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Koskinen S:
 Department of Public Health Solutions, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland

Koupil I:
 Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

 Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Mellor-Marsá B:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Sanitary Research Institute, Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain

Olaya B:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Pajak A:
 Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Prince M:
 Health Service and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK

 Global Health Institute, King's College London, London, UK

Raggi A:
 Neurology, Public Health, Disability Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Rodríguez-Artalejo F:
 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/Idipaz, Madrid, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, CIBERESP, Madrid, Spain

Sanderson W:
 Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

 Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA

Scherbov S:
 Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

 Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Austria

 International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russian Federation

Tamosiunas A:
 Department of Population Studies Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania

Tobias-Adamczyk B:
 Department of Medical Sociology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

 Department of Epidemiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland

Tyrovolas S:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain

Haro JM:
 Research, Innovation and Teaching Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, Sant Boi de Llobregat, Spain

 Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain
ISSN: 03005771





INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
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