Variation in the recall of socially rewarding information and depressive symptom severity: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test the association between recall for socially rewarding (positive) and/or socially critical (negative) information and depressive symptoms.

Method

Cohort study of people who had visited UK primary care in the past year reporting depressive symptoms (N = 558, 69% female). Positive and negative recall was assessed at three time-points, 2 weeks apart, using a computerised task. Depressive symptoms were assessed at four time-points using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Analyses were conducted using multilevel models.

Results

Concurrently we found evidence that, for every increase in two positive words recalled, depressive symptoms reduced by 0.6 (95% CI -1.0 to -0.2) BDI points. This association was not affected by adjustment for confounders. There wa

SUBMITTER: Lewis G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5763395 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature