Health-Related Conditions and Depression in Elderly Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Residents of a United States-Mexico Border County : Moderating Effects of Educational Attainment
Joint Authors
Escamilla, Michael A.
Weisman, Henry W.
Ledger, Elizabeth M.
Briones, David F.
Carcoba, Luis M.
Heller, Peter L.
Source
Depression Research and Treatment
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-10, 10 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-08-15
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
10
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We investigated the prevalence of “high” levels of depressive symptomatology and 13 health-related medical conditions in elderly Mexican American (MA) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) residents of El Paso County, Texas.
We analyzed the extent to which depressive symptoms in this population are associated with these conditions.
Elderly MA residents possessed a higher prevalence of current depression, a relatively unique health-related condition profile, and were more likely to experience a set of conditions that impede participation in daily life—conditions that we found to be strongly associated with high depressive symptomatology in the elderly.
After adjusting for educational attainment, using multiple regression analyses, depression was not associated with ethnicity and only six of the health related conditions showed significant differences between MA and NHW subjects.
We believe these results provide an important insight into the mechanism of health-related conditions and depressive symptomatology in a large sample of elderly MAs; and how conditions typically attributed to MA ethnicity may in actuality be an artifact of socioeconomic status variables such as educational-attainment.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Briones, David F.& Heller, Peter L.& Carcoba, Luis M.& Weisman, Henry W.& Ledger, Elizabeth M.& Escamilla, Michael A.. 2011. Health-Related Conditions and Depression in Elderly Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Residents of a United States-Mexico Border County : Moderating Effects of Educational Attainment. Depression Research and Treatment،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Briones, David F.…[et al.]. Health-Related Conditions and Depression in Elderly Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Residents of a United States-Mexico Border County : Moderating Effects of Educational Attainment. Depression Research and Treatment No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-10.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Briones, David F.& Heller, Peter L.& Carcoba, Luis M.& Weisman, Henry W.& Ledger, Elizabeth M.& Escamilla, Michael A.. Health-Related Conditions and Depression in Elderly Mexican American and Non-Hispanic White Residents of a United States-Mexico Border County : Moderating Effects of Educational Attainment. Depression Research and Treatment. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-10.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-507240
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-507240