Changes in frailty and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Chinese people: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

The older people bears a severe burden of disease due to frailty and depressive symptoms, however, the results of association between the two in the older Chinese people have been conflicting. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the developmental trajectories and interactions of frailty and depressive symptoms in the Chinese middle-aged and older adults.

Methods

The study used four waves of data from 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2018 in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) database, focused on middle-aged and older people ≥ 45 years of age, and analyzed using latent growth models and cross-lagged models.

Results

The parallel latent growth model showed that the initial level of depressive symptoms had a significant positive pre

SUBMITTER: Sang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10811919 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature