Having a monk in the family and all-cause mortality: a seven-year prospective cohort study.

IF 2.2 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Evolutionary Human Sciences Pub Date : 2025-02-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1017/ehs.2025.1
Liqiong Zhou, Yuan Chen, Erhao Ge, Aijie Zhang, Yasi Zhang, Juan Du, Ruth Mace, Yiqiang Zhan
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Abstract

Religious celibate monks at the household level possibly reduce all-cause mortality risk among non-monk older Tibetans. This study aims to investigate the association between having a celibate monk in a family and the all-cause mortality of non-monk household members in a Tibetan population. Baseline interviews were conducted for 713 agropastoral Amdo Tibetans aged ≥50 years residing in the eastern Tibetan Plateau from 2016 to 2017. The Cox mixed-effects regression model was used to estimate the association between having a celibate monk in a household and the mortality risk of other non-monk household members. Potential confounders included age, sex, household size, educational attainment, household wealth (measured as the number of yaks), marital status, and annual expenditure. During a median follow-up of 7 years, 54 deaths were identified. The results showed that people living in households with celibate monks had a lower risk of all-cause mortality (hazard ratio: 0.31, 95% confidence interval: 0.14, 0.67) as compared with those living in households without celibate monks. The results remained robust after controlling for confounders, suggesting that religious celibate monks at the household level were associated with lower all-cause mortality among non-monk older household members.

家中有和尚与全因死亡率:一项为期7年的前瞻性队列研究。
家庭层面的宗教独身僧侣可能降低非僧侣年长藏人的全因死亡风险。本研究旨在探讨在藏族人口中,一个家庭中有独身僧侣与非僧侣家庭成员的全因死亡率之间的关系。2016 - 2017年对居住在青藏高原东部的713名年龄≥50岁的农牧安多藏族进行了基线访谈。使用Cox混合效应回归模型来估计家庭中有独身僧侣与其他非僧侣家庭成员死亡风险之间的关系。潜在的混杂因素包括年龄、性别、家庭规模、受教育程度、家庭财富(以牦牛数量衡量)、婚姻状况和年度支出。在平均7年的随访期间,确定了54例死亡。结果显示,与没有独身僧侣的家庭相比,生活在有独身僧侣家庭的人的全因死亡风险较低(风险比:0.31,95%可信区间:0.14,0.67)。在控制了混杂因素后,结果仍然稳健,表明家庭层面的宗教独身僧侣与非僧侣家庭老年成员的全因死亡率较低有关。
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Evolutionary Human Sciences
Evolutionary Human Sciences Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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