Higher-order trajectories of pain and depressive symptoms link midlife financial stress to women's well-being in later life.

ABSTRACT: Objectives: Consistent with biopsychosocial models, shared pathophysiological conditions underlying both physical pain and depressive symptoms can result in the clustering of pain and depressive symptoms. However, previous studies have not investigated a higher-order construct capturing both pain and depressive symptoms over time. Furthermore, research has not identified trajectory antecedents (e.g. perceived family financial stress) and their consequences for later-life health and well-being. The present study sought to address these gaps in the research.Method: Using prospective data over 23 years from 244 long-term married women, the present study estimated latent growth curves in a structural equation model (more specifically a parallel trajectory model was estimated).

SUBMITTER: Wickrama KAS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9152740 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature