Social engagement and depression among Chinese aged 50 years and older

LI Gan; GUO Yan-fei; HUANG Zhe-zhou; RUAN Ye; SUN Shuang-yuan; SHI Yan; WU Fan

doi:10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.04.006

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LI Gan, GUO Yan-fei, HUANG Zhe-zhou, RUAN Ye, SUN Shuang-yuan, SHI Yan, WU Fan. Social engagement and depression among Chinese aged 50 years and older[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(4): 399-403. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.04.006

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LI Gan, GUO Yan-fei, HUANG Zhe-zhou, RUAN Ye, SUN Shuang-yuan, SHI Yan, WU Fan. Social engagement and depression among Chinese aged 50 years and older[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(4): 399-403. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.04.006

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Social engagement and depression among Chinese aged 50 years and older

doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.04.006

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School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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Division of Non-communicable Disease and Injury Control and Prevention, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China

Funds: The US National Institute on Aging(R01-AG034479); Shanghai Municipal Health Commission(201640148)

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Corresponding author: WU Fan, E-mail:wufan@shmu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2019-11-21
Rev Recd Date: 2020-02-13
Publish Date: 2020-04-10

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Objective To investigate the association between social engagement and depression among Chinese aged 50 and over. Methods Cross-sectional data was collected from the World Health Organization(WHO) study on global ageing and adult health(SAGE) wave 1 in China. The International Classification of Diseases 10 th revision depression scale(ICD-10) was used to evaluate the depression status of the respondents and the score of social engagement originating the frequency of social activities of the research population. All models were stratified by age groups, gender and residence. The Logistic regression analyses model were performed to identify the association between social engagement and depression. Results A total of 12 196 participants were included. The detection rate of depression was 1.72%(95% CI:1.54%-2.00%).The negative association between social engagement and depression was obtained in the multiple regression(OR=0.94, 95% CI: 0.90-0.98, P=0.006) after adjusting the factors of age, sex, residence, education level, household income, marital status, physical activity level, smoking and drinking status. In stratified analysis, the association was only statistically significant in urban, female, and 50-60 age groups(all P < 0.05). Conclusion This study found significant association between social engagement and depression, indicating that pertinence measures may help prevent depression in elderly population by enhancing social engagement.
- Social engagement,
- Depression,
- Elderly

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