This study examined the effects of parental depression symptoms, economic disadvantage, and parenting behaviors in 180 children and adolescents of depressed parents (ages 9-15 years-old). Analyses revealed that while parental depression symptoms, economic disadvantage, and disrupted parenting behaviors were related to children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms, disrupted parenting (e.g...

physical activity has physiological, psychological, and social positive effects. however, the relationship between physical activities and depression of the elderly in the country is unknown. this study was designed to examine the relationship between physical activity and depression. the statistical population consisted of the elderly of arak city in 2013 and 263 subjects participate in the st...

Depression is often associated with many adverse health conditions and lower socio-economic status. Stressful conditions like presence of disability coupled with traditional negative societal attitude towards disability may result in higher level of depression in the individuals with disability than in general population and can cause other health problems as well. Therefore, the purposes of th...

In this paper we estimate the potential benefit of policies that eliminate a small likelihood of economic crises. We define an economic crisis as a Depression-style collapse of economic activity. For the U.S., based on the observed frequency of Depression-like events, we estimate the likelihood of encountering a depression to be about once every 83 years. Even for this small probability of movi...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial health problems, specifically depression during pregnancy, can have negative impact on birth outcomes, postnatal mental health of the mother, and infant health. Antenatal depression is more prevalent among women in low- and middle-income countries than among women in high-income countries. Risk factors for antenatal depression reported in the literature relate to pregnan...

BACKGROUND According to the WHO report released in 2000, about 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression. The present study aimed to explore factors influencing depression in mothers from Rey, South of Tehran, Iran; who had elementary school children. METHODS The cross-sectional survey was conducted in spring 2010. Four hundred thirty mothers, who had elementary school children, wer...

BACKGROUND The global financial and economic crisis starting in 2007 led to a deterioration of several socio-economic determinants of mental health. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to examine the impact of the present economic crisis on the depression and anxiety levels of the employed in the private and public sector in Slovenia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Altogether 1592 employees compl...

Many large provider networks are investing heavily in preventing disease within the communities that they serve. We explore the potential benefits and challenges associated with tackling depression at the community level using a unique dataset designed for one such provider network. The economic costs of having depression (increased medical care use, lower quality of life, and decreased workpla...

BACKGROUND People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) continue to face persistent and deep rooted social barriers. Incidentally, studies in social determinants of depression are very limited, necessitating this study, which examined social determinants of depression and the impact of these determinants on depression. METHODS This was a hospital based, cross sectional descriptive study of three hundr...