A5076060111- Health disparities and outcomes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Physical Activity and Health
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global Health Care Issues
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
University of Ottawa
2023-2024
FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
2018-2023
University of Geneva
2017-2023
NCCR Chemical Biology - Visualisation and Control of Biological Processes Using Chemistry
2018-2021
To assess whether changes in physical activity and sedentary behaviour during the COVID-19 lockdown are associated with mental health. Observational longitudinal study. Participants living France or Switzerland responded to online questionnaires measuring activity, health, anxiety, depressive symptoms. Paired sample t-tests were used differences before lockdown. Multiple linear regressions investigate associations between health 267 (wave1) 110 participants (wave2; 2 weeks later) recruited....
Objective Habits, defined as well‐learned associations between cues and behaviours, are essential for health‐related including physical activity (PA). Despite the sensitivity of habits to context changes, little remains known about influence a change on interplay PA behaviours. We investigated evolution amidst spring COVID‐19 lockdown, major change. Moreover, we examined association behaviours autonomous motivation with this evolution. Design Three‐wave observational longitudinal design....
Objective This study aimed to test whether the level of cognitive resources explains engagement in physical activity across aging and age-related decline precede activity. Method Data from 105,206 adults aged 50 90 years Survey Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe (SHARE) were used adjusted linear mixed models examine moderate its evolution dependent on resources. Cognitive measured 5 times over a 12-year period. Delayed recall, verbal fluency, education as indicators The frequency was...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have detrimental effects on physical and mental health, but activity can help people to cope with stress, thereby mitigating its potential negative health consequences. In our study, we investigated whether changes in sedentary behaviours are associated during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Purpose This study aimed to investigate the associations between early- and adult-life socioeconomic circumstances physical inactivity (level evolution) in aging using large-scale longitudinal data. Methods used Survey of Health Ageing Retirement Europe, a 10-yr population-based cohort with repeated measurements five waves, every 2 yr 2004 2013. Self-reported (waves 1, 2, 4, 5), household income educational attainment (wave first measurement occasion), early-life circumstance 3) were...
Abstract Objectives This article aimed to assess associations of childhood socioeconomic conditions (CSC) with the risk frailty in old age and whether adulthood (ASC) influence this association. Methods Data from 21,185 individuals aged 50 years older included longitudinal Survey Health, Ageing, Retirement Europe were used. Frailty was operationalized as a sum presenting weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted multilevel logistic regression models used...
socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) during a person's lifespan influence wide range of health outcomes. However, solid evidence the association early- and adult-life SEC with trajectories in ageing is still lacking. This study assessed whether early-life are associated muscle strength later life-a biomarker health-and this relationship caused by behaviours.we used data from Survey Health Ageing Retirement Europe, 12-year population-based cohort repeated measurement six waves (2004-15)...
Recent evidence suggests humans have an automatic attraction to effort minimization. Yet, how this is associated with response inhibition still unclear. Here, we used go/no-go tasks capture inhibitory control in stimuli depicting physical activity versus inactivity 59 healthy young individuals. Higher commission errors (i.e., failure refrain a "no-go" stimulus) indicated lower control. Based on the energetic cost minimization theory, hypothesized that participants would exhibit higher when...
We observed a lack of population-based longitudinal research examining the association disadvantaged childhood socioeconomic circumstances (CSC) and disability [activities daily living (ADL) instrumental activities (IADL)] in older age, whether attainments adulthood can compensate for poor start life.Data on 24 440 persons aged 50-96 14 European countries (Survey Health, Ageing Retirement Europe) were used to measure associations between CSC limitations with ADL IADL, using mixed-effects...
Abstract Objectives This study aimed to assess whether cumulative disadvantage in childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions influence the risk of frailty old age welfare regimes these associations. Method Data from 23,358 participants aged 50 years older included longitudinal SHARE survey were used. Frailty was operationalized according Fried’s phenotype as presenting either weakness, shrinking, exhaustion, slowness, or low activity. Confounder-adjusted mixed-effects...
Adverse childhood experiences, depressive symptoms, and functional dependence are interrelated. However, the mechanisms underlying these associations remain unclear. The authors investigated potential of symptoms to mediate effect adverse experiences on in older age whether physical activity moderated this mediation.Data from 25,775 adults aged 62 (9) years Survey Health Ageing Retirement Europe were used adjusted linear mixed-effects models test mediated between activities daily living...
This study aimed to examine the cumulative disadvantage of different forms childhood misfortune and adult-life socioeconomic conditions (SEC) with regard trajectories levels self-rated health in old age whether these associations differed between welfare regimes (Scandinavian, Bismarckian, Southern European, Eastern European). The included 24,004 respondents aged 50-96 from longitudinal SHARE survey. Childhood SEC, adverse experiences, experiences. Adult-life SEC consisted education, main...
Using computerized reaction-time tasks assessing automatic attitudes, studies have shown that healthy young adults faster reaction times when approaching physical activity stimuli than avoiding them. The opposite has been observed for sedentary stimuli. However, it is unclear whether these results hold across the lifespan and error rates a possible generic approach-avoidance tendency are accounted for. Here, errors in online of 130 participants aged 21 to 77 years were analyzed using...
In the chronic phase after a stroke, limitations in basic activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental (IADLs) initially plateau before steadily increasing. The benefits prestroke physical activity on these remain unclear. To clarify this relationship, effect long-term evolution functional cohort people with stroke compared to matched adults without was examined.
Attentional capture by exercise-related stimuli is important for the regulation of physical activity. processing underlying this has been investigated with indirect behavioral measures based on reaction times. To investigate more direct visual spatial attention toward activity (vs. inactivity) stimuli, we used eye-tracking and a dot probe task in 77 young adults various level Reaction times to detect appearing area previously occupied stimulus were an measure attentional bias. The first...
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Muscle weakness – a biomarker of health may have its origins in early life and be related to factors such as adverse childhood experiences (ACE), which refer set early-life traumatic stressful psychosocial events out the child’s control. To date, evidence an association between ACE muscle strength older age is lacking. <b><i>Objective:</i></b> Here, we assessed associations during first 15 years risk low (LMS) later...
Poor lung function in late life may stem from early-life risk factors, but the epidemiological evidence is inconsistent. We investigated whether individuals who experienced disadvantageous socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) early showed lower levels of respiratory older age, a steeper decline over time, and these relationships were explained by adult-life SEC, body mass index, physical inactivity age. used data Survey Health Ageing Retirement Europe (2004-2015). Participants' peak expiratory...
Welfare regimes in Europe modify individuals' socioeconomic trajectories over their life-course, and, ultimately, the link between circumstances (SECs) and health. This paper aimed to assess whether associations life-course SECs (early-life, young adult-life, middle-age old-age) risk of poor self-rated health (SRH) old age are modified by welfare (Scandinavian [SC], Bismarckian [BM], Southern European [SE], Eastern [EE]).We used data from longitudinal SHARE survey. Early-life consisted four...
Background Early-life socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) are associated with health in old age. However, epidemiological evidences on the influence of these early-life risk factors trajectories healthy ageing inconsistent, preventing drawing solid conclusion about their potential influence. Here, to fill this knowledge gap, we used a statistical approach adapted estimating change over time and an outcome-wide epidemiology investigate whether SEC were level rate decline physical, cognitive...
This study aims to examine whether higher social protection expenditure reduces the negative association of life-course socioeconomic disadvantages with subjective and objective health status trajectories in later life. We used SHARE data from participants living 20 European countries aged 50 96. Seven waves allowed inequalities linear mixed-effects models stratified by sex between disadvantage (self-rated health, SRH, N = 55,443) (grip strength, 54,718) health. Cross-level interactions net...