Social relationships and depression among people 65 years and over living in rural and urban areas of Quebec

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1226-1236

  Mechakra Tahiri, Samia ^a   Zunzunegui, Maria Victoria ^a   Préville, Michel ^b   Dubé, Micheline ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Metropolitan; Rural; Social relationships; Urban

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTIMACY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; QUEBEC; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 70350731101     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.2250     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. American Psychiatric Association. 1994. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV, American Psychiatric Association: Washington, DC.
2. Andrews G, Peters L. 1998. The psychometric properties of the composite international diagnostic interview. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 33: 80-88. (Pubitemid 28080588)
3. Barefoot JC, Mortensen EL, Helms MJ, Avlund K, Schroll M. 2001. A longitudinal study of gender differences in depressive symptoms from age 50 to 80. Psychol Aging 16: 342-345. (Pubitemid 32530294)
4. Bergdahl E, Allard P, Lundman B, Gustafson Y. 2007. Depression in the oldest old in urban and rural municipalities. Aging Ment Health 11: 570-578. (Pubitemid 47450800)
5. Berkman LF, Glass T, Brissette I, Seeman TE. 2000. From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium. Soc Sci Med 51: 843-857. (Pubitemid 30326785)
6. Chatfield MD, Brayne CE, Matthews FE. 2005. A systematic literature review of attrition between waves in longitudinal studies in the elderly shows a consistent pattern of dropout between differing studies. J Clin Epidemiol 58: 13-19.
7. Chou KL, Chi I. 2005. Prevalence and correlates of depression in Chinese oldest-old. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 20: 41-50. (Pubitemid 40089563)
8. Cohen S, Doyle WJ, Skoner DP, Rabin BS, Gwaltney JM Jr. 1997. Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. JAMA 277: 1940-1944. (Pubitemid 27272771)
9. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. 1975. "Mini-mental state". A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 12: 189-198.
10. Forsell Y, Winblad B. 1999. Incidence of major depression in a very elderly population. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 14: 368-372. (Pubitemid 29271527)
11. Friedman B, Conwell Y, Delavan RL. 2007. Correlates of late-life major depression: a comparison of urban and rural primary care patients. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 15: 28-41. (Pubitemid 46106088)
12. Institut de la statistique du Québec. 2002. Enquête sociale et de santé 1998. Disponible à: https://www.stat.gouv.qc
13. Institut de la statistique du Québec. 2007. Lexique du système du code géographique du Québec. Rapport disponible à: http://www.stat.gouv.qc.ca/publications/referenc/pdf2007/ LexiqueSept07.pdf
14. Kawachi I, Berkman LF. 2001. Social ties and mental health. J Urban Health 78: 458-467.
15. Kim JM, Shin IS, Yoon JS, Stewart R. 2002. Prevalence and correlates of late-life depression compared between urban and rural populations in Korea. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 17: 409-415.
16. Li Y, Ferraro KF. 2005. Volunteering and depression in later life: social benefit or selection processes? J Health Soc Behav 46: 68-84.
17. Minicuci N, Maggi S, Pavan M, Enzi G, Crepaldi G. 2002. Prevalence rate and correlates of depressive symptoms in older individuals: the Veneto Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57: M155-161. (Pubitemid 34202935)
18. Montagnier D, Barberger-Gateau P, Jacqmin-Gadda H, et al. 2006. Evolution of prevalence of depressive symptoms and antidepressant use between 1988 and 1999 in a large sample of older French people: results from the personnes agees quid study. J Am Geriatr Soc 54: 1839-1845. (Pubitemid 44915826)
19. Morrow-Howell N, Hinterlong J, Rozario PA, Tang F. 2003. Effects of volunteering on the well-being of older adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58: S137-145. (Pubitemid 36548761)
20. Murphy JM, Monson RR, Laird NM, Sobol AM, Leighton AH. 2000. A comparison of diagnostic interviews for depression in the Stirling County study: challenges for psychiatric epidemiology. Arch Gen Psychiatry 57: 230-236.
21. Musick MA, Wilson J. 2003. Volunteering and depression: the role of psychological and social resources in different age groups. Soc Sci Med 56: 259-269. (Pubitemid 35430339)
22. Newman SC, Bland RC, Orn HT. 1998. The prevalence of mental disorders in the elderly in Edmonton: a community survey using GMS-AGECAT. Geriatric Mental State-Automated Geriatric Examination for Computer Assisted Taxonomy. Can J Psychiatry 43: 910-914.
23. Okabayashi H, Liang J, Krause N, Akiyama H, Sugisawa H. 2004. Mental health among older adults in Japan: do sources of social support and negative interaction make a difference? Soc Sci Med 59: 2259-2270.
24. Okwumabua JO, Baker FM, Wong SP, Pilgram BO. 1997. Characteristics of depressive symptoms in elderly urban and rural African Americans. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 52: M241-246.
25. Ostbye T, Kristjansson B, Hill G, et al. 2005. Prevalence and predictors of depression in elderly Canadians: the Canadian study of health and aging. Chronic Dis Can 26: 93-99. (Pubitemid 43242130)
26. Papadopoulos FC, Petridou E, Argyropoulou S, et al. 2005. Prevalence and correlates of depression in late life: a population based study from a rural Greek town. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 20: 350-357. (Pubitemid 40590496)
27. Paykel E, Abbott R, Jenkins R, Brugha T, Meltzer H. 2003. Urbanrural mental health differences in Great Britain: findings from the National Morbidity Survey. Int Rev Psychiatry 15: 97-107. (Pubitemid 36363531)
28. Penninx BW, Geerlings SW, Deeg DJ, et al. 1999. Minor and major depression and the risk of death in older persons. Arch Gen Psychiatry 56: 889-895.
29. Pickett W, King DW, Faelker T, et al. 1999. Le suicide chez les exploitants agricoles canadiens. Maladies chroniques du Canada 20: 117-122.
30. Preville M, Boyer R, Hebert R, Bravo G, Seguin M. 2005. Correlates of suicide in the older adult population in Quebec. Suicide Life Threat Behav 35: 91-105. (Pubitemid 40381444)
31. Preville M, Boyer R, Grenier S, et al. 2008. The Scientific Committee of the ESA study. The epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in the Quebec older adult population. Can J Psychiatry 53(12): 822-832.
32. Probst JC, Laditka SB, Moore CG, et al. 2006. Rural-urban differences in depression prevalence: implications for family medicine. Fam Med 38: 653-660.
33. Ramos M, Wilmoth J. 2003. Social relationships and depressive symptoms among older adults in southern Brazil. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58: S253-261. (Pubitemid 36903994) (Pubitemid 37169747)
34. Robins LN, Helzer JE, Croughan J, Ratcliff KS. 1981. National Institute of Mental Health Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Its history, characteristics, and validity. Arch Gen Psychiatry 38: 381-389.
35. Robins LN, Regier DA. 1991. Psychiatric disorders in America: the epidemiologic catchment area study. (Free Press; Toronto: Collier Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International: New York).
36. Seeman TE, Crimmins E. 2001. Social environment effects on health and aging: integrating epidemiologic and demographic approaches and perspectives. Ann N Y Acad Sci 954: 88-117. (Pubitemid 34048918)
37. Seeman TE, Lusignolo TM, Albert M, Berkman L. 2001. Social relationships, social support, and patterns of cognitive aging in healthy, high-functioning older adults: MacArthur studies of successful aging. Health Psychol 20(4): 243-255. (Pubitemid 32738609)
38. Spanier GB. 1976. Measuring dyadic adjustment: new scales for assessing the quality of marriage and similar dyads. J Marriage Fam 38: 15-28.
39. Stansfeld SA. 1985. Social support and social cohesion. In: Social Determinants of Health, M, Marmot RG Wilkinson (eds). Oxford University Press: New York. pp 155-178.
40. St John PD, Blandford AA, Strain LA. 2006. Depressive symptoms among older adults in urban and rural areas. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21: 1175-1180.
41. St-Laurent D, Bouchard C. 2004. L'épidémiologie du suicide au Québec: que savons-nous de la situation récente? Institut National de Santé Publique (INSPQ), Unité Connaissance- surveillance. Disponible à: http://www.inspq.qc.ca/pdf/publications/283- FeuilletEpidemioSuicide.pdf
42. Streiner DL, Cairney J, Veldhuizen S. 2006. The epidemiology of psychological problems in the elderly. Can J Psychiatry 51: 185-191.
43. Umberson D, Chen MD, House JS, Hopkins K, Slaten E. 1996. The effect of social relationships on psychological well-being: Are men and women really so different? Am Sociol Rev , 61(5): 837-857.
44. Wang JL. 2004. Rural-urban differences in the prevalence of major depression and associated impairment. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 39: 19-25. (Pubitemid 39369103)
45. Zunzunegui MV, Beland F, Llacer A, Leon V. 1998. Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Spanish elderly. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 33: 195-205. (Pubitemid 28197623)
46. Zunzunegui MV, Beland F, Otero A. 2001. Support from children, living arrangements, self-rated health and depressive symptoms of older people in Spain. Int J Epidemiol 30: 1090-1099. (Pubitemid 33049046)