According to sufficiently reported outcomes , social capital interventions showed mixed effects on quality of life , well-being and self-perceived health and were generally ineffective on loneliness , mood and mortality .
Conclusions Our review highlights the lack of evidence and the diversity among trials , while supporting the potential of social capital interventions to reach comprehensive health effects in older adults
Background Observational studies show that social capital is a protective health factor .
Therefore , we aim to assess the currently unclear health impact of social capital interventions targeting older adults .
Social capital and health-purely a question of context?
Debate still surrounds which level of analysis ( individual vs. context ual ) is most appropriate to investigate the effects of social capital on health . Applying multilevel ecometric analyses to British Household Panel Survey data , we estimated fixed and r and om effects between five individual- , household- and small area-level social capital indicators and general health . We further compared the variance in health attributable to each level using intraclass correlations . Our results demonstrate that association between social capital and health depends on indicator type and level investigated , with one quarter of total individual-level health variance found at the household level . However , individual-level social capital variables and other health determinants appear to influence context ual-level variance the most
According to sufficiently reported outcomes , social capital interventions showed mixed effects on quality of life , well-being and self-perceived health and were generally ineffective on loneliness , mood and mortality .
Conclusions Our review highlights the lack of evidence and the diversity among trials , while supporting the potential of social capital interventions to reach comprehensive health effects in older adults
Background Observational studies show that social capital is a protective health factor .
Therefore , we aim to assess the currently unclear health impact of social capital interventions targeting older adults .