Depression Symptoms Declining Among Older Adults: Birth Cohort Analyses From the Rust Belt.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate potential birth cohort effects in depression symptoms in older adults.

Design

Population-based prospective cohort.

Setting

Small-town communities in Pennsylvania.

Participants

Three thousand two hundred and twenty seven older adults (average baseline age = 71.6) born between 1902 and 1941.

Measurements

Four decade-long birth cohorts were the primary predictors in this study: 1902-1911, 1912-1921, 1922-1931, and 1932-1941. The outcome was symptoms of depression assessed at baseline and follow-up study visits using a modified Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (mCES-D). The depression outcome was operationalized as: 1). A binary outcome of having greater than equal to 5 depression symptoms on the total mCES-D at any

SUBMITTER: Sullivan KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898763 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature