The association of pain phenotype and providing caregiving with depressive symptom trajectory for older adults: a longitudinal analysis using the health and retirement study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aims to analyze the association between different pain phenotypes and depressive symptom trajectory among community-dwelling older adults, and whether and how providing caregiving render older adults with pain more prone to a deteriorating depressive trajectory.

Methods

Data were derived from the Health and Retirement Study between 2008 and 2020. Older adults were classified into different pain phenotypes leveraging four pain characteristics at baseline (i.e. 2008) using latent class analysis, including pain intensity, pain interference, pain location, and pain persistence. Caregiving status was collected at baseline using helper lists. Depressive symptoms were measured biennially from 2008 to 2020. Linear mixed models were constructed to explore the in

SUBMITTER: Zhao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12016469 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature