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Correlates of depressive symptomatology among older community-dwelling Mexican Americans
— the Hispanic EPESE | | Author(s) | Sandra A Black, Kyriakos S Markides, Todd Q Miller |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological sciences and social sciences, vol 53B, no 4, July 1998 |
| Pages | pp S198-S208 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Ethnic groups ; Mexico ; Living in the community ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Multivariate logistic regression was used to examine the association between depressive symptoms and sociodemographics, chronic health conditions, disability, and cultural factors using data from the Hispanic EPESE (Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly) a sample of older Mexican Americans. Using the US Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), 25.6% of the 2,823 subjects reported high symptom levels. Rates among women (31.9%) and men (17.3%) were higher than typically reported for older Mexican Americans and older adults generally. Consistent with previous studies of older adults, gender, lack of insurance, financial strain, chronic health conditions, and disability are associated with depressive symptoms. Several cultural factors were also associated with increased risk: immigrant status, levels of acculturation and assimilation, health locus of control, and recency of immigration. Female immigrants were at significantly higher risk for depressive symptoms, whereas males were at lower risk. Findings suggest that increased prevalence can be attributed to higher rates of sociodemographic risk factors, functional disability, cultural factors and chronic medical conditions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980903242 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: TK: 7TY: K4: 49: 7T |
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