The Association between Depressive Symptoms and Physical Diseases in Switzerland: A Cross-Sectional General Population Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the association between depressive symptoms and physical diseases in Switzerland, as respective findings might inform about future estimates of mental and physical health care costs.

Methods

A population-based study, using data from the Swiss Health Survey collected by computer-assisted telephone interviews and additional written questionnaires during the year 2007 (n = 18,760) in Switzerland. The multistage stratified random sample included subjects aged 15 years and older, living in a private Swiss household with a telephone connection. Complete data were available for 14,348 subjects (51% of all subjects reached by telephone). Logistic regression analyses were used to estimate the associations between depressive symptoms and any physical disease, or

SUBMITTER: Rodic D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4370044 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature