A Longitudinal Study on Multidimensional Resilience to Physical and Psychosocial Stress in Elderly Mexicans.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: To identify trajectories of depression and daily disability in the context of serious falls and widowhood and to predict those trajectories before the events occurred. Methods: Longitudinal data were used from the Mexican Health and Aging Study. Trajectories were estimated using latent class growth analysis. Internal and socio-ecological resources were analyzed as predictors of the trajectories. Results: Unfavorable (worsening of symptoms and chronic high symptoms) and favorable (improvement of symptoms and stable low symptoms (resistance)) trajectories were identified. Favorable trajectories were more likely for daily disability. Persons who showed resistance in depression also tended to show resistance in daily disability. Net worth, cognition, and subjec

SUBMITTER: Holtge J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7791275 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature