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Depressive symptoms and aging
— the effects of illness and non-health related events | | Author(s) | Amy Fiske, Margaret Gatz, Nancy L Pedersen |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 6, November 2003 |
| Pages | pp P320-P328 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Ill health ; Bereavement ; Stress ; Twins ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Hypotheses regarding age and depression are tested, the first being that depressive symptoms would increase between midlife and old age, longitudinally as well as cross-sectionally, and that the increase would not be fully explained by comorbid physical illness. It was further hypothesised that both declining health and non-health-related negative life events would explain longitudinal increases in depressive symptoms. Adults aged 29-93 from the Swedish Adoption and Twin Study of Ageing (SATSA) completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression scale (CES-D) three times at 3-year intervals. Analyses were performed on one twin (n=877) and repeated on the second twin (n=909) as a non-independent replication. Depressive symptoms increased modestly with age in both men and women, particularly in the older participants. Health status was correlated with depressive symptoms, but new illnesses in the previous 3 years did not consistently predict increase in depressive symptoms, longitudinally. Negative life events in the previous 3 years predicted depressive symptoms. Notably, depressive symptoms also predicted future life events. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040406226 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CH: DW: QNH: SVR: 3J: 76P |
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