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The effect of spousal mental and physical health on husbands' and wives' depressive symptoms, among older adults
— longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Survey | | Author(s) | Michele J Siegel, Elizabeth H Bradley, William T Gallo |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 16, no 3, June 2004 |
| Pages | pp 398-425 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Spouses ; Mental health [elderly] ; Health [elderly] ; Husbands ; Wives ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Multivariate regression models were estimated to examine the impact of spousal depression symptoms and physical health on respondents' depressive symptoms. For these measurements, the authors used data on 5,035 husbands and wives from the 1992 and 1996 waves of the US Health and Retirement Survey. Adjusting for respondents' mental and physical health and sociodemographic traits, having a spouse with more depressive symptoms was associated with significantly higher follow-up depressive symptoms in the respondent. Controlling for spousal depressive symptoms, a decline in the spouse's physical health was associated with significant reduction in respondent depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that health care providers treating older people should be sensitive to the possibility that spouses may be affected when clients suffer poor mental or physical health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040909209 A |
| Classmark | SN: D: CC: SNA: SNW: ENR: CT: 3J: 7T |
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