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| Is lower cognitive function in one spouse associated with depressive symptoms in the other spouse? | | Author(s) | Kimberly A Skarupski, Carlos F Mendes de Leon, Judith J McCann |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 10, no 6, November 2006 |
| Pages | pp 621-630 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Husbands ; Wives ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Subjects were 528 spouse pairs aged 65+ living in the community who participated in the Chicago Health and Aging Project (CHAP), an ongoing longitudinal, bi-racial, population-based study of risk factors for incident Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other age-related chronic conditions. CHAP participants were assessed at 3-year intervals over a period of nearly 10 years. The results show a cross-sectional association of wives' lower cognitive function at baseline with depressive symptoms in husbands; however, husbands' cognitive function was not associated with wives' depressive symptoms over time. There was no longitudinal association of cognitive function at baseline with increased depressive symptoms over time. Furthermore, change in cognitive function over time had no effect on depressive symptoms in either spouse. The relationship between cognitive function and depressive symptoms to spouse pairs is complex. These findings suggest that husbands may be particularly psychologically vulnerable to the negative effects of their wives' cognitive impairment. This vulnerability may have a range of long-term health and caregiving implications. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-061211211 A |
| Classmark | DA: ENR: CT: SNA: SNW: K4: 49: 3J: 7T |
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