Organizing and Analyzing Data from the SHARE Study with an Application to Age and Sex Differences in Depressive Symptoms.

ABSTRACT: The SHARE study contains health, lifestyle, and socioeconomic data from individuals ages 50 and older in European countries collected over several waves. Leveraging these data for research purposes can be daunting due to the complex structure of the longitudinal design. The two aims of our study are (1) to develop a framework and R code for data management of the SHARE data to prepare for data analysis, and (2) to demonstrate how to apply the framework to a specific research question, where the aim is to model the presence of clinically significant depression assessed by the 12-item Europe depression scale. The result is a framework that substantially reduces the time to initiate research studies using SHARE data, facilitating the data extraction, data preparation and initial data analysis

SUBMITTER: Lusa L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8471350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature