Community-Level Social Support Infrastructure and Adult Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian Postconflict Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Individual-level social support protects against major depressive disorder (MDD) among adults exposed to trauma. Little is known about the consequences of community-level interventions in the general population.

Objective

To determine the potential consequences of neighborhood social infrastructure on incident MDD in a high-risk general population.

Design, setting, and participants

This longitudinal, multilevel study estimated associations between a neighborhood-level program in a case-control design and subsequent individual outcomes across 10 years (2006-2015) in a cohort of young adults. Exogenously placed social programs simulate natural experiment conditions in a high-poverty population experiencing armed conflict (1998-2006). The western Chitwan valle

SUBMITTER: Axinn WG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8792786 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature