Decline of depressive symptoms in Europe: differential trends across the lifespan
| dc.contributor.author | Beller, Johannes | |
| dc.contributor.author | Regidor Poyatos, Enrique | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lostao Unzu, Lourdes | |
| dc.contributor.author | Miething, Alexander | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kröger, Christoph | |
| dc.contributor.author | Safieddine, Batoul | |
| dc.contributor.author | Fabian Tetzlaff, Fabian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Sperlich, Stefanie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Geyer, Siegfried | |
| dc.contributor.department | Sociología y Trabajo Social | es_ES |
| dc.contributor.department | Soziologia eta Gizarte Lana | eu |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-21T10:03:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-21T10:03:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Purpose: We examined changes in the burden of depressive symptoms between 2006 and 2014 in 18 European countries across different age groups. Methods: We used population-based data drawn from the European Social Survey (N = 64.683, 54% female, age 14–90 years) covering 18 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland) from 2006 to 2014. Depressive symptoms were measured via the CES-D 8. Generalized additive models, multilevel regression, and linear regression analyses were conducted. Results: We found a general decline in CES-D 8 scale scores in 2014 as compared with 2006, with only few exceptions in some countries. This decline was most strongly pronounced in older adults, less strongly in middle-aged adults, and least in young adults. Including education, health and income partially explained the decline in older but not younger or middle-aged adults. Conclusions: Burden of depressive symptoms decreased in most European countries between 2006 and 2014. However, the decline in depressive symptoms differed across age groups and was most strongly pronounced in older adults and least in younger adults. Future studies should investigate the mechanisms that contribute to these overall and differential changes over time in depressive symptoms. © 2020, The Author(s). | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This paper was funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), reference number GE 1167/15-1. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 14 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00127-020-01979-6 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0933-7954 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/39990 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Springer | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2020) | en |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-020-01979-6 | |
| dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. | en |
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| dc.subject | Compression of morbidity | en |
| dc.subject | Depression | en |
| dc.subject | Mental health | en |
| dc.subject | Population | en |
| dc.subject | Trend | en |
| dc.title | Decline of depressive symptoms in Europe: differential trends across the lifespan | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
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