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Birth cohort changes in the depressive symptoms of Chinese older adults
— a cross-temporal meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Jingjin Shao, Dan Li, Dajun Zhang |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 28, no 11, November 2013 |
| Publisher | Wiley Blackwell, November 2013 |
| Pages | pp 1101-1108 |
| Source | www.orangejournal.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Social change ; China. |
| Annotation | With the dramatic changes in Chinese society and economy, the average depressive symptoms of Chinese older adults may have changed across their birth cohort. This study aimed to examine changes in the depressive symptoms of Chinese older adults by analysing data from 1987 to 2010. The study examined changes in the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale scores of older adults for the past 24 years (1987 to 2010) by using cross-temporal meta-analysis. A total of 35,299 older adults were included in the data. The results showed the following: (i) Correlations between the mean scores and data collection year were significantly positive. The mean scores in the depressive symptoms of Chinese older adults showed an increase of at least 0.53 standard deviations from 1987 to 2010. (ii) The means of the scores in the depressive symptoms of both male and female older adults exhibited a significant increase in the past 24 years, with the rising tendency of women being considerably higher than that of men. (iii) Depressive symptoms showed a significant increase for different age groups in the past 24 years, whereas scores for depressive symptoms had no significant difference in terms of age group. These findings demonstrate that social changes play an important role in predicting changes in the depressive symptoms of older adults. (JL) |
| Accession Number | CPA-131018200 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: TMH: 7DC |
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