Walking and Depression in a Cohort of Older Adults: The Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Mobily ◽  
Linda M. Rubenstein ◽  
Jon H. Lemke ◽  
Michael W. O’Hara ◽  
Robert B. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Cohort Groups ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mixed Age

The purpose of the study was to develop an explanatory model of the exercise/depression relationship using a rural-residing population of elderly aged 65 or older. Subjects were selected from the 3,673 persons who participated in the Iowa 65+ Rural Health Study. The 2,084 subjects with complete data, valid information about depressive symptoms, and ability to walk across a small room were divided into two cohort groups at baseline: those with few and those with more depressive symptoms. Logistic regression models using walking status, demographic variables, and chronic health conditions were developed to predict depressive symptoms for this population at a 3-year follow-up. Consistent with previous studies using mixed-age cohorts, physical activity was negatively associated with depressive symptoms. We concluded that the relationship between exercise and depressive symptoms may be manifested in both subjects with more and few depressive symptoms because both groups benefited from daily walking.

scholarly journals The prospective relationship between social cohesion and depressive symptoms among older adults from Central and Eastern Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Bertossi Urzua ◽  
Milagros A Ruiz ◽  
Andrzej Pajak ◽  
Magdalena Kozela ◽  
Ruzena Kubinova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
Prospective Association

BackgroundSocial cohesion has a potential protective effect against depression, but evidence for Central and Eastern Europe is lacking. We investigated the prospective association between social cohesion and elevated depressive symptoms in the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland, and assessed whether alcohol drinking and smoking mediated this association.MethodsCohort data from 15 438 older urban participants from the Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe project were analysed. Baseline social cohesion was measured by five questions, and depressive symptoms were measured 3 years later by the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Depression (CES-D) Scale. Nested logistic regression models estimated ORs of elevated depressive symptoms (CES-D 10 score ≥4) by z-scores and tertiles of social cohesion.ResultsPer 1 SD decrease in social cohesion score, adjusted ORs of elevated depressive symptoms were 1.13 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.23) and 1.05 (95% CI 0.99 to 1.13) in men and women, respectively. Further adjustment for smoking and drinking did not attenuate these associations in either men (OR=1.13, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.22) or women (OR=1.05, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.13). Similarly, the fully adjusted ORs comparing the lowest versus highest social cohesion tertile were 1.33 (95% CI 1.10 to 1.62) in men and 1.18 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.39) in women.ConclusionsLower levels of social cohesion was associated with heightened depressive symptoms after a 3-year follow-up among older Czech, Russian and Polish adults. These effects appeared stronger in men, and alcohol and smoking played no appreciable role in this association.

scholarly journals Allostatic Load, Unhealthy Behaviors, and Depressive Symptoms by Birthplace Among Older Adults in the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging (SALSA)

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 851-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik J. Rodriquez ◽  
Melanie Sabado-Liwag ◽  
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable ◽  
Anne Lee ◽  
Mary N. Haan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Count Range ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: To assess whether unhealthy behaviors moderated the relationship between allostatic load (AL) and future significant depressive symptoms (SDSs) among 1,789 older Latinos. Method: Longitudinal data included baseline AL, three unhealthy behaviors (UBs), and 2-year follow-up SDS. Multivariable logistic regression analyses, stratified by birthplace (U.S. vs. foreign born), modeled the effects of AL, UB count (range = 0-3), and their interaction on follow-up SDS. Results: Compared with U.S.-born, foreign-born participants engaged in fewer UBs (0.52 vs. 0.60 behaviors, p = .01) and had higher baseline SDS (31% vs. 20%, p < .001). Among foreign-born participants, the effect of AL on future SDS (adjusted odds ratios [aORs]; 95% confidence interval [CI]) significantly increased across UB counts of 0 to 3: 1.06 [0.83, 1.35], 1.46 [1.14, 1.87], 2.00 [1.18, 3.41], and 2.75 [1.18, 6.44], respectively. Discussion: Among foreign-born Latinos, these results were most pronounced for women and adults above age 80, which may represent higher risk groups requiring more intensive screening for depression.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARITAL STATUS, COHORT, AND DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS IN TAIWAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S311-S312
Author(s):  
Fang-Yi Huang ◽  
Min Li
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Baby Boom ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Depression Symptom ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Financial Decline ◽  
Married Female ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Objectives: The relationship between marital status and depression symptoms is well documented. However, how the negative economic shock affect relationship differ by gender and cohort is still indecisive. The dataset “2011 wave of the Taiwan Longitudinal Study in Aging” and logistic regression models were used in the study. The results: Marital status is related to depression symptoms, but it differs by gendered cohort. With considering financial shock, there is no difference of depressive symptom between divorced and married female. The divorced and widowed have 4.81 and 2.47 times higher of getting depression symptom than the married for baby boom female. Being divorced is 3.67 times higher of getting depressive symptoms than being married for baby boom male. For WWII female, the widows are 1.78 times higher to have depressive symptoms than the married. being divorced, widowers, and single are 3.32, 2.21 and 2.90 times higher of getting depressive symptoms than being married for WWII male. Being divorced is 3.67 times higher of getting depressive symptoms than being married for baby boom male. In conclusions, people with unstable marital statuses are more depressed than the married. In particular, the effect of unstable marital statuses on depression could be account for by financial decline for women but not men. Given the policy emphasis on those with unstable marital status and economic decline, divorce female and single baby boom female may represent particular groups in whom interventions designed to financially support.

scholarly journals High DHEAS Is Associated With Earlier Pubertal Events in Girls But Not in Boys

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (7) ◽  
pp. 800-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Pereira ◽  
German Iñiguez ◽  
Camila Corvalan ◽  
Verónica Mericq
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Function ◽  
Pubertal Development ◽  
Sex Characteristics ◽  
Premature Thelarche ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Tanner Staging ◽  
Secondary Sex Characteristics ◽  
Premature Adrenarche ◽  
The Relationship

Context: Premature adrenarche (PA) has been associated with increased metabolic risk. Objective: To describe the risk of precocious thelarche (PT; &lt;8 years), pubarche (PP; girls &lt;8 years, boys &lt;9 years), and gonadarche (PG; &lt;9 years) in children with high dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS [HD]) vs those with normal DHEAS (ND). Setting and Intervention: Longitudinal Chilean cohort (n = 1052, 49.9% girls). Annual clinical examination including secondary sex characteristics by Tanner staging. Logistic regression models were adjusted by age and BMI. Main Outcome: Assess the relationship between DHEAS and premature thelarche, gonadarche, and pubarche in both sexes. Results: At age of DHEAS determination, overweight/obesity was present in 44.3% of boys and 42.9% of girls. Incidences of any precocious event were observed in 17.2% of boys and in 25.4% of girls, presented as 8.7% of PG and 8.5% of PP in boys and as 21.3% of PT and 4.1% of PP in girls. In crude and adjusted models in boys, HD did not increase the risk of earlier pubertal events. Conversely, girls with HD had a 2.6 times greater risk of early thelarche and a three times greater risk of early pubarche compared with girls with ND concentrations. Conclusion: In Chilean adolescents, precocious events of pubertal development were in line with the worldwide secular trend of earlier sexual maturation. HD was only associated with PT and PP in girls. Continuous follow-up of this cohort is a unique opportunity to prospectively address and analyze the interrelationships among HD, early growth, and adiposity as determinants of gonadarche, pubertal rate/sequence progression, and ovarian function.

scholarly journals Low blood pressure and risk of depression in the elderly

2000 ◽  
Vol 176 (5) ◽  
pp. 464-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Paterniti ◽  
Marie-Hélène Verdier-Taillefer ◽  
Catherine Geneste ◽  
Jean-Claude Bisserbe ◽  
Annick Alpérovitch
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Drinking Habits ◽  
Low Blood Pressure ◽  
The Relationship

BackgroundThe relationship between depression and low blood pressure is unclear.AimsTo examine the temporal relation between low blood pressure and depression in a two-year follow-up.MethodThe study group consisted of 1389 subjects aged 59–71 years; 1272 (92%) were examined after two years. Subjects completed the Center for Epidemiological Studies–Depression (CES–D) and the Spielberger inventory scales to assess depressive and anxiety symptoms respectively. Data were collected on socio-demographic characteristics, smoking and drinking habits, medical history, drug use and blood pressure measures.ResultsAmong 1112 subjects who were considered as non-depressed at baseline, logistic regression models showed that low diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and decrease of blood pressure were predictors of high depressive symptomatology at follow-up. Baseline high CES–D scores did not predict low blood pressure two years after.ConclusionsIn our study, low blood pressure was a risk factor for, but not a consequence of, high depressive symptomatology.

scholarly journals Isotemporal Analysis of the Association of Objectively Measured Physical Activity With Depressive Symptoms: Results From Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL)

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 733-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad D. Rethorst ◽  
Ashley E. Moncrieft ◽  
Marc D. Gellman ◽  
Elva M. Arredondo ◽  
Christina Buelna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Hispanic Community ◽  
Hispanic Latinos ◽  
Objectively Measured ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Background:The burden of depression among Hispanics/Latinos indicates the need to identify factors related to depressive symptoms. This paper examines the relationship of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) with depressive symptoms in Hispanic/Latinos.Methods:The Hispanic Community Health Study / Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) is a population-based, cohort study of Hispanic/Latinos in 4 United States metropolitan areas. Objectively measured PA was coded into: sedentary behavior (SB), light-intensity (LPA), moderate-intensity (MPA), and vigorous-intensity (VPA); and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale-10 assessed depressive symptoms. Multiple regression analysis utilizing isotemporal substitution, adjusted for relevant covariates, examined PA as predictors of depressive symptoms.Results:Substitution of 1 hour of SB with VPA resulted in a significant decrease in depressive symptoms (β = –1.215, P = .021). Similar decreases were observed when VPA replaced LPA (β = –1.212, P = .021) and MPA (β = –1.50 P = .034). MPA and LPA were not associated with lower depressive symptoms.Conclusions:Previous research has focused on the relationship of MVPA on depressive symptoms. Our results suggest these constructs should be examined separately as they may have unique relationships with depressive symptoms. The association of SB with greater depressive symptoms confirms previous reports.

scholarly journals Cohort profile: The Youth and Mental Health Study (YAMHS) – a longitudinal study of the period from adolescence to adulthood

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0247036
Author(s):  
Jannike Kaasbøll ◽  
Johannes Foss Sigurdson ◽  
Norbert Skokauskas ◽  
Anne Mari Sund
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Individual Identification ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Mental Health Study

The aim of this article is to provide a detailed description of the Youth and Mental Health Study (YAMHS),a population-based, representative (cluster sampling), prospective cohort study that was conducted to investigate risk and resilience factors for mental health conditions, specifically depressive symptoms and disorders, from adolescence to adulthood. The baseline data were collected in 1998 (T1) in two counties in central Norway from 2464 adolescents (response rate 88.3%, mean age 13.7 years). The first follow-up was conducted in 1999 (T2) (n = 2432, response rate of 87.1%, mean age 14.9 years). A subgroup of individuals was assessed at T2 (n = 345) with clinical interviews, and this subgroup was reassessed in 2005 (T3) (n = 265, 70.1%, 20 years). The last follow-up (of participants assessed at T1 and T2) was conducted in 2012 (T4) (n = 1266, 51.9%, 27.2 years). Demographics, depressive symptoms, general psychopathology, suicidal ideation and attempts and psychological and somatic factors were recorded. Among adolescents of both sexes, psychosocial variables were correlated with and predicted depressive symptom severity. The strongest predictors were sex (female), the levels of depressive symptoms the preceding year, and the total number of stressful events. The association between stressful life events and depressive symptoms was moderated by physical activity, while the relationship between stressful events and coping style was mediated by depressive symptoms. The rate of use of specialised mental health services among the depressed was low. The lifetime prevalence of depressive disorders was 23% at 15 years, and the most common disorder was minor depression. Adolescents who attempted suicide were more often victims of violence and less resilient than were non-suicide attempters. The existing longitudinal data from the cohort will be further analysed. Follow-up data will be obtained from existing national registries by links created with individual identification numbers.

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