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Seven-Year Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Their Predictors Among Older Americans.
- Source :
- Journal of Aging & Health; Aug/Sep2020, Vol. 32 Issue 7/8, p795-806, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Objective: This study examined the trajectories of depressive symptoms and associated factors in older adults using an enhanced group-based trajectory modeling. Method: The study sample consisted of 7,573 adults aged ≥65 years from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (Rounds 1-7). Depressive trajectories were estimated using a group-based trajectory modeling accounting for nonrandom attrition. Results: A four-trajectory model including "persistently low" (77.7%), "increasing" (7.9%), "declining," (5.5%), and "persistently high" (8.9%) was the best fit using methods accounting for nonrandom attrition. In comparison, methods not accounting for attrition estimated that only 3.2% of older adults were on the "persistently high" trajectory. There were significant differences in depressive trajectories by age, race/ethnicity, sex, physical, and cognitive functioning, and social connections. Discussion: Persistently high depressive symptoms affected a larger proportion of older adults than previously estimated. Depression had a more long-term and increasing course in the oldest-old. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PSYCHOLOGICAL aspects of aging
ELDER care
COGNITION
MENTAL depression
OLD age
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08982643
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 7/8
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Aging & Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146508572
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264319852835