Arts and Culture Engagement and Mortality: A Population-based Prospective Cohort Study

Overview

Journal Scand J Public Health

Publisher Sage Publications

Specialty Public Health

Date 2023 Apr 22

PMID 37086102

Authors

Anita Jensen

Mirnabi Pirouzifard

Martin Lindstrom

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Abstract

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate associations between having visited the theatre/cinema and an arts exhibition during the past year and all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and other-cause mortality.

Methods: The 2008 public health postal survey in Scania, Sweden, was distributed to a stratified random sample of the adult population (18-80 years old). The participation rate was 54.1%, and 25,420 participants were included in the present study. The baseline 2008 survey data were linked to cause-of-death register data to create a prospective cohort with 8.3-year follow-up. Associations between visit to the theatre/cinema, visit to an arts exhibition and mortality were investigated in survival (Cox) regression models.

Results: Just over a quarter (26.5%) had visited both the theatre/cinema and an arts exhibition during the past year, 36.6% only the theatre/cinema, 4.9% only an arts exhibition and 32% neither of the two. Not visiting the theatre/cinema during the past year was associated with higher all-cause and CVD mortality. Not visiting an arts exhibition was associated with higher all-cause and other-cause mortality. The combination of having visited neither the theatre/cinema nor an arts exhibition during the past year was associated with higher all-cause, CVD and other-cause mortality.

Conclusions:

Citing Articles

Arts, culture and sports engagement and self-rated health: a cross-sectional population-based study in southern Sweden.

Lindstrom M, Pirouzifard M, Jensen A BMC Public Health. 2024; 24(1):2654.

PMID: 39342166 PMC: 11437888. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-20031-9.

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