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Relationships Between Social and Health Factors and Depression in Old Age in a Multivariate Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2005

Kimmo Pahkala ,
Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä  and
Pekka Laippala
Kimmo Pahkala
Affiliation:
Social Welfare and Health Department, Province of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland Department of Public Health Science, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health Science, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Pekka Laippala
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
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Abstract

This community-based epidemiological survey concerns relationships between social and health factors and depression in a Finnish population aged 60 years or over. A multivariate analysis based on log-liner models is used in this study.

The log-linear model showed five interactions for the depressed men and eight for the depressed women surveyed. These indicated that the depressive persons had experienced detrimental events either of an interpersonal nature or concerning health status more often than those who were not depressed. A positive connection between life stress and depression was found even though no cause-and-effect relationship could be defined. Social stress factors seemed somewhat important prior to the onset of depression in the women studied, whereas stressful health factors played a significant role for the men. Despite this, the log-linear models for the selected variables used here did not point to a combination of interactions between a high incidence of current social stress factors and a high incidence of stressful health factors during the six-month period prior to the onset of depression.

Type
Research and Reviews
Information
International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 1993 , pp. 15 - 32
Copyright
© 1993 Springer Publishing Company

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