bidirectional associations between chronic medical conditions, disability, and depressive symptoms over 25 years: black- white differences

Bidirectional associations between chronic medical conditions, disability, and depressive symptoms over 25 years: Black- White differences

Background and aims: Blacks have a higher rate of chronic medical conditions (CMC), disability, and depressive symptoms compared to Whites. The present study compared Blacks and Whites for bidirectional associations between CMC, disability, and depressive symptoms over a 25-year period. Methods: Data came from all five waves (1986, 1989, 1994, 2001, and 2...

Reciprocal Associations between Depressive Symptoms and Mastery among Older Adults; Black-White Differences

Purpose: Although higher levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of sense of mastery tend to be comorbid, limited information exists on racial differences in the longitudinal associations between the two over time. The current study compared Black and White American older adults for the longitudinal links between depressive symptoms and mastery in the United States. Methods: Using data f...

Bidirectional prospective associations between physical activity and depressive symptoms. The TRAILS Study.

PURPOSE Low levels of physical activity (PA) have been shown to be associated with depression in adults. The few studies that focused on adolescents yielded mixed and inconsistent results. Efforts to examine the direction of this relationship have been inconclusive up to now. The aims of this study were therefore to investigate (1) the direction of the inverse association between PA and depress...

Examining a bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and diabetes.

CONTEXT Depressive symptoms are associated with development of type 2 diabetes, but it is unclear whether type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for elevated depressive symptoms. OBJECTIVE To examine the bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and type 2 diabetes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, a longitudinal, ethnically diverse cohort study...

Black-White Differences in Disability Prevalence: The Importance of Marriage*

Longitudinal Associations between Adolescent Psychotic Experiences and Depressive Symptoms

BACKGROUND Psychotic experiences are prevalent in community samples and are highly correlated with depressive symptoms. This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal associations between psychotic experiences and depressive symptoms between adolescence and young adulthood. METHOD Prospective cohort study with a 6 year follow-up in a community sample of 7632 adolescents and young adults. De...