Depressive symptoms and their correlates among immigrant Mexican women in the United States

Vega, William A.; Kolody, Bohdan; Valle, Ramon; Hough, Richard L.

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(86)90037-7

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“…With the exception of one study (Riolo, Nguyen, Greden & King, 2005), previous studies have shown the opposite, that white women have better mental health outcomes when compared to ethnic minority women (Cochran, Brown & McGregor, 1999;Dunlop, Song, Lyons, Manheim & Chang, 2003;Myers et al, 2002;Somervell, Leaf, Weissman, Blazer & Bruce, 1989;Vega, Kolody, Valle & Hough, 1986). One possible explanation might be that ethnic minority women, such as Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islanders, have protective factors that white women do not such as large family units, which bring with them high levels of social support.…”

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Factors Associated with Major Depression Among Mothers in Los Angeles

Lara-Cinisomo

Griffin

2007

Women's Health Issues

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Purpose-The aim of this study was to identify factors associated with major depression among a sample of diverse mothers in Los Angeles while paying special attention to racial and ethnic as well as immigration status differences.Methods-Using logistic regression models, we examined the association between major depression and race and ethnicity, immigration status, and other key covariates. Major depression was measured using the Comprehensive International Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF). This study was based on 1,856 racially and ethnically diverse mothers who participated in Wave 1 of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS), which was fielded in 65 census tracts.Main Findings-After controlling for key covariates, we found that non-Hispanic white mothers had more than 1.67 times the odds of having major depression than Hispanic mothers (95% CI =0.99, 2.80). In addition, single mothers had elevated rates of major depression compared to married mothers (OR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.00, 2.37). Mothers with a college degree or higher had significantly lower odds of being depressed compared to mothers without a college degree (OR = .50, 95% CI = 0.29, 0.86) while mothers with only adolescents in the home had significantly higher odds of major depression than mothers with at least one preadolescent child in the home (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.11, 2.70).

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Factors Associated with Major Depression Among Mothers in Los Angeles

Lara-Cinisomo

Griffin

2007

Women's Health Issues

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“…Description: The context of exit questions were adapted from a community-based study of low income Mexican American women, ages 35-50, in San Diego County, California (Vega, Kolody et al, 1986). Fifteen questions were selected from this study's original questionnaire to evaluate reasons for migration (voluntary or imposed), extent of preparation/anticipation preceding migration, and occupational and/or economic opportunities in the recipient nation.…”

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Cultural relevance and equivalence in the NLAAS instrument: integrating etic and emic in the development of cross‐cultural measures for a psychiatric epidemiology and services study of Latinos

Alegrı́a¹,

Vila²,

Woo³

et al. 2004

Int J Methods Psych Res

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This paper describes the development, translation and adaptation of measures in the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). We summarize the techniques used to attain cultural relevance; semantic, content and technical equivalency; and internal consistency of the measures across languages and Latino sub-ethnic groups. We also discuss some of the difficulties and challenges encountered in doing this work. The following three main goals are addressed in this paper: (1) Attaining cultural relevance by formulating the research problem with attention to the fundamental cultural and contextual differences of Latinos and Asians as compared to the mainstream population; (2) Developing cultural equivalence in the standardized instruments to be used with these populations; and (3) Assessing the generalizability of the measures -i.e., that the measures do not fluctuate according to culture or translation. We present details of the processes and steps used to

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“…Hovey (2000) reported that acculturative stress significantly predicted depression among a community-based sample of Mexican adults. Vega, Kolody, Valle and Hough (1986) found higher depressive symptomatology among immigrants who had lived in the United States for five or fewer years than among their peers who had resided in the United States for longer. In addition, Finch and Vega (2003) found that higher levels of acculturative stress associated with one's legal status in the United States were associated with poorer SRH.…”

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Self-Rated Health Among Adult Women of Mexican Origin

Wilkinson

Hernández‐Valero

Etzel

et al. 2006

Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences

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Self-rated health (SRH), a consistent predictor of mortality among diverse populations, is sensitive to health indicators and social factors. American-born Hispanics report better SRH than their foreign-born counterparts but simultaneously report poorer health indicators and have shorter life expectancy. Using a matched prospective cross-sectional design, we analyzed data from 631 agematched pairs of women, born in the United States or Mexico, enrolled in a cohort study based in Houston, Texas. Our first goal was to describe the relationships between SRH and health behaviors, physician-diagnosed chronic conditions, acculturation, and socioeconomic status (SES) by birthplace. Our second goal was to investigate the relative influence of SES, acculturation, health behaviors, and physician-diagnosed conditions in explaining expected differences in SRH between the two groups. Number of chronic conditions reported, particularly depression, more strongly influenced SRH than SES, acculturation, or reported health risk behaviors and the influence of birthplace is accounted for by these factors. KeywordsSelf-rated health; acculturation; SES; health indicators Self-rated health (SRH) is one of the most consistent predictors of morbidity and mortality (Idler & Benyamini, 1997). Regardless of ethnicity, individuals who perceive their health as fair or poor tend to report more physician visits per year, spend more days per year in bed, and are more likely to die prematurely (McGee, Liao, Cao & Cooper, 1999) than are individuals who typically rate their health as good or better. Also, among older adults, health care expenditures have been shown to be five times greater for those reporting poor health than for those reporting excellent health with hospitalization rates following a similar pattern (Bierman, Bubolz, Fisher & Wasson, 1999).Self-ratings of health vary by ethnicity and country of origin. Latinos, for example, report lower SRH than non-Hispanic whites do (Angel & Guarnaccia, 1989;Idler & Angel, 1990), and foreign-born Latinos report lower SRH than American-born Latinos do (Angel, Buckley & Finch, 2001;Finch, Hummer, Reindl & Vega, 2002). Acculturation, "the process by which immigrants assimilate into the dominant culture adopting new social norms and values," influences how Latinos understand health (Vega & Amaro, 1994). Therefore, differences in SRH between Latinos and non-Hispanic whites and between American-born and foreign-born Latinos may reflect variations in how diverse groups of people interpret the concept of health. However, the differences may also reflect variations in co-morbidities, as SRH is associated with chronic health conditions (Manor, Matthews & Power, 2001 On the other hand, these differences in SRH may indicate that men and women in different social positions and circumstances interpret health-related information differently. For example, as markers of SES (e.g., education level) increase, ratings of fair or poor health tend to decrease (McGee, Liao, Cao & Cooper, 1999). In comparison, ...

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Depressive symptoms and their correlates among immigrant Mexican women in the United States

Cited by 137 publications

References 21 publications

Factors Associated with Major Depression Among Mothers in Los Angeles

Factors Associated with Major Depression Among Mothers in Los Angeles

Cultural relevance and equivalence in the NLAAS instrument: integrating etic and emic in the development of cross‐cultural measures for a psychiatric epidemiology and services study of Latinos

Self-Rated Health Among Adult Women of Mexican Origin

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