Gender, Depressive Symptoms, Chronic Medical Conditions, and Time to First Psychiatric Diagnosis among American Older Adults

International Journal of Preventive Medicine
Shervin Assari, Masoumeh Dejman

Abstract

To test whether gender moderates the effects of baseline depressive symptoms and chronic medical conditions (CMCs) on risk of receiving subsequent psychiatric diagnosis among older adults. Data came from ten waves of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative longitudinal study. We followed 9794 individuals older than 52 years without any diagnosed psychiatric disorder at baseline for up to 18 years. Baseline depressive symptoms and CMC were the predictors, time to receiving an emotional diagnosis was the outcome, baseline demographics and socioeconomics were controls, and gender was the moderator. We used Cox proportional hazards models for data analysis. In the pooled sample, female gender increased the effect of baseline depressive symptoms (hazard ratio [HR], 1.58; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.26-2.00) and reduced the effect of baseline CMC (HR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.63-0.97) on time to receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. Among men, baseline depressive symptoms (HR, 2.36; 95% CI, 1.87-2.97) increased and baseline CMC (HR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.69-0.95) decreased time to receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. Among women, depressive symptoms (HR, 1.49; 95% CI, 1.21-1.83) but not CMC (HR, 1.06; 95% CI, 0.91-1.23) were ass...Continue Reading

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