The prospective relationship between social cohesion and depressive symptoms among older adults from Central and Eastern Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F75010330%3A_____%2F19%3A00012607" target="_blank" >RIV/75010330:_____/19:00012607 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/73/2/117.full.pdf" target="_blank" >https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/73/2/117.full.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-211063" target="_blank" >10.1136/jech-2018-211063</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The prospective relationship between social cohesion and depressive symptoms among older adults from Central and Eastern Europe
Original language description
Background Social cohesion has a potential protective effect against depression, but evidence for Central and Eastern Europe is lacking. We investigated the prospective association between social cohesion and elevated depressive symptoms in the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland, and assessed whether alcohol drinking and smoking mediated this association. Methods Cohort data from 15 438 older urban participants from the Health, Alcohol and Psychosocial factors In Eastern Europe project were analysed. Baseline social cohesion was measured by five questions, and depressive symptoms were measured 3 years later by the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Depression (CES-D) Scale. Nested logistic regression models estimated ORs of elevated depressive symptoms (CES-D 10 score >= 4) by z-scores and tertiles of social cohesion. Results Per 1 SD decrease in social cohesion score, adjusted ORs of elevated depressive symptoms were 1.13 (95% CI 1.05 to 1.23) and 1.05 (95% CI 0.99 to 1.13) in men and women, respectively. Further adjustment for smoking and drinking did not attenuate these associations in either men (OR=1.13, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.22) or women (OR=1.05, 95% CI 0.99 to 1.13). Similarly, the fully adjusted ORs comparing the lowest versus highest social cohesion tertile were 1.33 (95% CI 1.10 to 1.62) in men and 1.18 (95% CI 1.01 to 1.39) in women. Conclusions Lower levels of social cohesion was associated with heightened depressive symptoms after a 3-year follow-up among older Czech, Russian and Polish adults. These effects appeared stronger in men, and alcohol and smoking played no appreciable role in this association.
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Czech description
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Classification
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
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
ISSN
0143-005X
e-ISSN
1470-2738
Volume of the periodical
73
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
117-122
UT code for WoS article
000458378700005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85056097797