Association between childhood growing environment and depressive symptoms in old persons aged 60 to 74 years
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2024.11.003
- VernacularTitle:60～74岁老年人儿童期成长环境与抑郁症状的关联
- Author:
Yang MA
1
;
Yueqin HUANG
;
Haixia LIU
;
Zekun SUN
;
Hongxu ZHANG
;
Qingrui ZHANG
Author Information
1. 滨州医学院公共卫生学院,山东烟台 264003
- Keywords:
young old person;
childhood;
growing environment;
depressive symptom;
Center for Epidemio-logic Studies Depression Scale
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2024;38(11):943-948
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the association between childhood growing environment and depressive symptoms in young old persons aged 60 to 74 years.Methods:The data of the fourth wave of China Health and Re-tirement Longitudinal Study in 2018 and the life course survey in 2014 were used to secondary analysis.A total of 7 642 young old persons aged 60 to 74 years were included,and the 10-item of the Center for Epidemiological Stud-ies Depression(CES-D-10)scale was used to evaluate the depressive symptoms.The generalized linear mixed effects model was used to explore the relationship between childhood growing environment and depressive symp-toms in the young old persons.Results:The detection rate of depressive symptoms occurrence in the young old per-sons was 37.2％.The risk factors of depressive symptoms included female(OR=1.89),rural(OR=1.35),hav-ing hunger experience(OR=1.22),poor relationship with male dependents(OR=1.72),female caregiver's expe-riences of being bedridden due to illness(OR=1.38),community insecurity(OR=1.59),more harmonious neigh-borhood relationship(OR=1.20)and less harmonious neighborhood relationship(OR=1.81).The protective fac-tors of depressive symptoms occurrence included moderate(OR=0.79)and high(OR=0.50)per capita house-hold income,and educated father(OR=0.84)(P＜0.05).Conclusion:Childhood growing environment is an influ-ential factor of depressive symptoms in the young old persons.The long-term health effects of childhood environ-ment should be paid attention to.
