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| Rural-urban migration and depression in ageing family members left behind | | Author(s) | Melanie A Abas, Sureeporn Punpuing, Tawanchai Jirapramukpitak |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 195, no 1, July 2009 |
| Pages | pp 54-60 |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Migration ; Children [offspring] ; Rural areas ; Urban areas ; Depression ; Parents ; Social surveys ; Thailand. |
| Annotation | It has been suggested that rural-urban migration will have adverse consequences for older parents left behind. The aim of this study was to describe correlates of out-migration and to estimate any association between out-migration of children and depression in rural-dwelling older parents. Population-based survey of 1147 parents aged 60 and over in rural Thailand. The authors randomly oversampled parents living without children. They defined an out-migrant child as living outside their parent's district, and measured depression as a continuous outcome with a Thai version of the EURO-D. Out-migration of all children, compared with out-migration of some or no children, was independently associated with less depression in parents. This association remained after taking account of social support, parent characteristics, health and wealth. Parents with all children out-migrated received more economic remittances and they perceived support to be as good as that of those with children close by. Out-migration of children was not associated with greater depression in older parents and, after taking account of a range of possible covariables, was actually associated with less parental depression. This could be explained by pre-existing advantages in families sending more migrants and by the economic benefits of migration. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090902219 A |
| Classmark | TN: SS: RL: RK: ENR: SR: 3F: 7HG |
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