Season of birth has no effect on symptoms of depression and anxiety in older adults

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00023752%3A_____%2F22%3A43920854" target="_blank" >RIV/00023752:_____/22:43920854 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11130/22:10443363 RIV/00216208:11240/22:10443363
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10892-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10892-8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10892-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-022-10892-8</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Season of birth has no effect on symptoms of depression and anxiety in older adults
Original language description
There remains a lack of conclusive evidence as to the merit of season of birth as a predictor of mental illness across contexts. We studied 72,370 individuals (55% women; mean age 66) from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Depressive symptoms were assessed with EURO-D scale and symptoms of anxiety with modified Beck Anxiety Inventory. Multilevel modeling was used to assess the association of season of birth as well as month of birth with symptoms of depression and anxiety, by sex and region. Adjusting for sex and age, month of birth explained only 0.01% to 0.07% of anxiety and depressive symptoms with non-significant improvement in the overall models; using season of birth instead of month of birth added 0.00% to 0.04% of explained variance. When stratified by sex and European region, age explained 0.23% to 5.19% of anxiety and depressive symptoms; the addition of month of birth or season of birth improved the models by negligible amount. Season of birth and month of birth are not reliable predictors of anxiety and depression across the life course.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30302 - Epidemiology

Project
<a href="/en/project/NU20J-04-00022" target="_blank" >NU20J-04-00022: Healthy Brain Aging: A life-course perspective</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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