The relationship between early life urbanicity and depression in late adulthood: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to study the association of childhood urbanicity with depressive symptoms in late adulthood.

Design, setting and participants

We used linear and logistic regressions to analyse data drawn from 20 400 respondents from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a panel dataset incorporating a representative sample of the 50+ population in 13 European countries.

Outcomes and analysis

Childhood urbanicity was determined using self-reports of the respondents' circumstances at age 10, and late-adulthood depression using the EURO-D scale. We conditioned on circumstances early in life as well as later in life, most importantly late-adulthood urbanicity. We estimated the associations using linear regression models and limited dependent variable

SUBMITTER: Howdon D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731892 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature