Reciprocal Effects Between Depressive Symptoms and Pain in Veterans over 50 Years of Age or Older.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Depression and chronic pain are major problems in American veterans, yet there is limited long-term research examining how they relate to one another in this population. This study examined the relationship between depressive symptoms and pain in U.S. veterans 50 years of age or older.

Methods

This study used data on veterans from the 2002-2016 waves of the Health and Retirement Study (n = 4,302), a large-scale observational study of Americans 50 years of age or older. Measures included a short form of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale and two items assessing the presence and degree of pain. Analyses included random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM).

Results

In the RI-CLPM, there were roughly equivalent cross-lagged effects be

SUBMITTER: Griffin SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123932 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature