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Volunteering and mortality risk: a partner-controlled quasi-experimental design

Author(s) -

Dermot O’Reilly,

Michael Rosato,

John Moriarty,

Gerard Leavey

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyx037

Subject(s) - confounding , hazard ratio , demography , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , selection bias , observational study , medicine , cohort study , cohort , risk of mortality , lower risk , gerontology , pathology , sociology

The consensus that volunteering is associated with a lower mortality risk is derived from a body of observational studies and therefore vulnerable to uncontrolled or residual confounding. This potential limitation is likely to be particularly problematic for volunteers who, by definition, are self-selected and known to be significantly different from non-volunteers across a range of factors associated with better survival.

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