Depressive symptoms and psychosocial variables among community-dwelling elderly people

• Autor(a) principal: Batistoni,Samila Sathler Tavares
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Cupertino,Ana Paula Fabrino Bretas, Neri,Anita Liberalesso
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/309
• topic: Aged people, depression, CES-D, social support, social mobility.

<p><b>OBJECTIVE:</b> Investigating relationships among stressful life events in the last year, personal evaluations of social support, social class and social mobility, and depressive symptoms assessed by the CES-D.<br> <b>PARTICIPANTS:</b> 903 community dwelling-elderly (Mean age = 72.3 ± 8.21), from a investigation on successful aging.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 33,8%, mostly related to poor social support, four to 16 stressful life events, being 60 to 69, women, from the lower middle class and having descendent social mobility. Absence of depression was related to satisfactory social support, one to three stressful life events, being men, being aged 70 to 79 or 80 and more, pertaining to the middle class, with social stability from adulthood to old age. Multivariate analysis of regression showed that high number of stressful life events (OR = 2,55) and low quality of social support (OR = 2,31) were the main significant predictors of depressive symptoms.</p>