Mental health selection: common mental disorder and migration between multiple states of deprivation in a UK cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess whether the direction of movement along the social gradient was associated with changes in mental health status.

Design

Longitudinal record-linkage study using a multistate model.

Setting

Caerphilly, Wales, UK between 2001 and 2015.

Participants

The analytical sample included 10 892 (60.8% female) individuals aged 18-74 years.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Deprivation change at lower super output area level using the 2008 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. Mental health was assessed in 2001 and 2008 using the Mental Health Inventory subscale of the short-form 36 V.2.

Results

Mental health selection was shown whereby individuals with common mental health disorders were less likely to move to areas of lower deprivatio

SUBMITTER: Greene G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7045005 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature