Pastor-Barriuso R, Padrón-Monedero A, Parra-Ramírez LM, García-López FJ, Damián J. Social engagement within the facility increased life expectancy in nursing home residents: a follow-up study. BMC Geriatrics 2020 Description ----------- Study data, STATA do-file, and R script to study the potential causal effect of social engagement on long-term, all-cause mortality in care home residents Authors ------- Pastor-Barriuso R National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain rpastor@isciii.es Padrón-Monedero A National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain a.padronm@isciii.es Parra-Ramírez LM National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain linamarcela.parra@salud.madrid.org García-López FJ National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain fjgarcial@isciii.es Damián J National Center for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health Monforte de Lemos 5, 28029 Madrid, Spain jdamian@isciii.es List of files included in data package -------------------------------------- "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_Data.csv" (27 KB) "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_Stata_dofile.txt" (15 KB) "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_R_script.txt" (17 KB) File descriptions ----------------- "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_Data.csv" Study dataset (19 variables, 382 observations) in CSV format with variable names in the first line. The variable names, labels, and codes are: id: Sequential study identification number socpart: Social engagement at baseline (0 low/null, 1 moderate, 2 high) extvisit: Frequency of external visits at baseline (0 monthly or less, 1 weekly, 2 daily) caregiver: Assigned caregiver at baseline (0 no, 1 yes) age: Age at baseline (years) agecat: Age at baseline (0 <75, 1 75-79, 2 80-84, 3 85-89, 4 >=90 years) sex: Sex (0 women, 1 men) educ: Educational level (0 =secondary) marital: Marital status at baseline (0 married, 1 single, 2 divorced/widowed) facowner: Facility ownership (0 public/subsidized, 1 private) facsize: Facility size (0 <100, 1 100-299, 2 >=300 beds) stay: Length of stay at baseline (years) staycat: Length of stay at baseline (0 0-1, 1 2–4, 2 >=5 years) ndisease: No of diseases other than dementia at baseline ndiscat: No of diseases other than dementia at baseline (0 0-1, 1 2-3, 2 >=4) barthelcat: Functional dependency at baseline (0 no, 1 mild, 2 moderate) sweight: Sampling weight time: Follow-up time (years) dth: Status at the end of follow-up (0 alive, 1 dead) "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_Stata_dofile.txt" Annotated STATA do-file to perform statistical analysis "Pastor-Barriuso_et_al_2020_BMC_Geriatrics_Social_engagement_and_mortality_R_script.txt" Annotated R script to perform statistical analysis and produce figures