TY - JOUR T1 - Predicting the changes in depressive symptomatology in later life: how much do changes in health status, marital and caregiving status, work and volunteering, and health-related behaviors contribute? JF - J Aging Health Y1 - 2007 A1 - Namkee G Choi A1 - Bohman, Thomas M. KW - Aged KW - Caregivers KW - depression KW - Employment KW - Female KW - Forecasting KW - Health Behavior KW - Health Status KW - Humans KW - Male KW - Marital Status KW - Middle Aged KW - Netherlands KW - Regression Analysis KW - Sweden KW - United States KW - Volunteers AB -

This study examined the unique effects of four variable groups on changes in older adults' depressive symptoms for a 2-year period: (1) baseline health and disability status, (2) changes in health and disability since baseline, (3) stability and changes in marital and caregiving status and in work and volunteering, and (4) stability and changes in health-related behaviors. With data from the 1998 and 2000 interview waves of the Health and Retirement Study, the authors used gender-separate multistep (hierarchical) residualized regression analyses in which the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale (CES-D) score at follow-up is modeled as a function of the effect of each group of independent variables. As hypothesized, changes in health, disability, marital, and caregiving status explained a larger amount of variance than the existing and stable conditions, although each group of variables explained a relatively small amount (0.3-3.4%) of variance in the follow-up CES-D score.

PB - 19 VL - 19 IS - 1 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17215206?dopt=Abstract U4 - Depression Symptoms/DISABILITY/DISABILITY/Caregiver Status/Marital Status/Work, volunteer ER -