Beliefs about causes of major depression: Clinical and treatment correlates among African Americans in an urban community.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:Major depression is increasingly viewed in the United States public as a medical disorder with biological and psychosocial causes. Yet little is known about how causal attributions about depression vary among low-income racial minorities. This study examined beliefs about causes of depression and their demographic, clinical and treatment correlates in a lower income African American sample. METHOD:Volunteers (N = 110) aged 24-79 years, who participated in a family study of depression, completed a 45-item questionnaire on their beliefs about the causes of depression. We used multidimensional scaling (MDS) to cluster items into causal domains and multivariate regression analyses to test associations of causal domains with demographic and clinical characteristics and treatments rec

SUBMITTER: Murphy E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5867240 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature