Impact of social, familial and personal factors on depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults from the national CHARLS cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to evaluate whether social, familial and personal factors can predict incident and prevalent depressive symptoms in Chinese adults aged ≥ 45 years using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS).

Methods

Study subjects without depressive symptoms from CHARLS at baseline were enrolled. Depressive symptoms were defined by the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Statistical adjustment, subgroup exploration and unmeasured confounding assessment were undertaken to derive reliable estimates.

Results

1681 (27.04%) of 6215 subjects who had no depressive symptoms in 2011, suffered one or more depressive symptoms in 2018. Multivariate analyses showed that number of grandchildren (odds ratio [95% conf

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440718 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature