Longitudinal relationships in the psychopathology of depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop symptom networks and examine the longitudinal relationships of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in China.

Method

This study used three-wave data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2013 (T1), 2015 (T2), and 2018 (T3)). Depressive symptoms were measured by the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). A multilevel vector autoregression model (VAR) was used to identify ten depressive symptoms dynamically interacting with each other over time.

Results

A total of 3,558 participants were included in the final analysis. The strongest direct effects were 'D10: felt fearful' -> 'D6: felt everything I did was an effort' (β = 0.14). 'D10: felt fearful' reported the largest value of out-pre

SUBMITTER: Zhu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10318117 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature