INTRODUCTION Depressive symptoms are very common in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and have a significant impact on the quality of life. Dopaminergic medication has been shown to have an influence on the development of depressive symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS The present study analyzed two groups of non-demented patients with PD, with and without depressive symptoms, and reported th...

OBJECTIVE Depressive symptoms in people with diabetes are associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes. Although successful psychosocial treatment options are available, little is known about factors that facilitate treatment response for depression in diabetes. This prospective study aims to examine the impact of known risk factors on improvement of depressive symptoms with a special int...

Depressive symptoms are related to negative health outcomes in caregivers of patients with HF. Understanding the factors that are associated with depressive symptoms among caregivers is essential to providing appropriate interventions. Little is known about which status and factors are related to depressive symptoms among Chinese caregivers of patients with heart failure. This study aimed to in...

Mothers of young children are at risk for depressive symptoms due to their gender and status as parents of young children. The primary purposes of this study were: (1) to assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms in a sample of mothers with young children; (2) to identify sociodemographic correlates of depressive symptoms among the women; and (3) to determine if chronic stress is associated ...

Background: It has been suggested that alcohol problems negatively affect therapeutic interventions for depression. This study examines the patterns of change in depressive symptoms following an intervention for depression, in participants with or without comorbid unhealthy alcohol use. Methods: Depressive symptoms (BDI-II), perceived control of depressive symptoms (UNCONTROL) and unhealthy alc...

PURPOSE Despite the well-established association between baseline depressive symptoms and risk of all cause-mortality, limited information exists on racial differences in the residual effects of baseline depressive symptoms above and beyond socioeconomic status (SES) and physical health on this link. The current study compared Blacks and Whites for the residual effects of depressive symptoms ov...

BACKGROUND Maternal depressive symptoms are a strong predictor of increases in depressive symptoms in offspring, yet knowledge of individual differences that may moderate the association between youth and maternal symptoms is still relatively scant. Youth genetic susceptibility to maternal depressive symptoms in particular is a nearly unexplored area of research. METHODS This study used a mul...

BACKGROUND Leptin and ghrelin have been implicated in the pathogenesis of major depression. However, evidence is lacking among apparently healthy people. This study examined the relationship of these appetite hormones to depressive symptoms in a Japanese working population. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 among 497 Japanese employees (287 men and 210 women) aged 20-68 ye...

BACKGROUND Numerous factors influence late-life depressive symptoms in adults, many not thoroughly characterized. We addressed whether genetic and environmental influences on depressive symptoms differed by age, sex, and physical illness. METHOD The analysis sample included 24 436 twins aged 40-90 years drawn from the Interplay of Genes and Environment across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) Consorti...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting results about the association between body mass index (BMI) and depressive symptoms in older adults. The present study examined the relationship between weight and depressive symptoms over time in older adults in South Korea. METHODS We used data from three waves of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging and ran a series of cross-lagged panel models to test th...