Describing the population health burden of depression: health-adjusted life expectancy by depression status in Canada

Steensma, Colin; Loukine, Lidia; Orpana, Heather; McRae, Louise; Vachon, Julie; Mo, Frank; Boileau-Falardeau, Michèle; Reid, Cary; Choi, Bernard C. K.

doi:10.24095/hpcdp.36.10.01

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“…In addition, older adults are more likely to encounter significant life changes, such as deteriorating health, reduced financial ability, or the loss of a loved partner, resulting in a higher risk of depression ( W. Kim et al, 2015 ). Late-life depression may reduce the quality of life, worsen physical functioning and cognition, and increase health care costs ( Cotrena, Branco, Kochhann, Shansis, & Fonseca, 2016 ; Steensma et al, 2016 ). More importantly, people with depression have higher risk of suicide and a higher mortality rate ( Steensma et al, 2016 ).…”

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Association Between Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Americans

Chao

Katigbak

Zhang

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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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Purpose: This study examined the association between social support and depressive symptoms among U.S. Chinese older adults. Methods: Data were from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago (PINE) study. Independent variables were positive and negative perceived social support (PSS). Dependent variable was depressive symptoms. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: A total of participants were 3,157 Chinese older adults with the mean age of 72.8 years (range 60-105 years). After controlling for confounding factors, Chinese older adults with higher positive PSS were 12% (odds ratio [OR] = 0.88, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.85, 0.92]) and 18% (OR = 0.82, 95% CI = [0.79, 0.86]) less likely to report mild and moderate-severe depressive symptoms, respectively, compared to reporting minimal depressive symptoms; On the contrary, Chinese older adults with higher negative PSS were 34% (OR = 1.34, 95% CI = [1.24, 1.46]) and 38% (OR = 1.38, 95% CI = [1.26, 1.52]) more likely to report mild and moderate-severe depressive symptoms, respectively. Discussion: The study findings corroborate previous research that social support is significantly associated with depressive symptoms. Our findings reinforce the importance of developing strategies to utilize positive social support and limit negative support in practice for the depressed older adults. Further studies should be conducted to better understand the associations between different dimensions of social support and depression among U.S. Chinese older adults.

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Association Between Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Americans

Chao

Katigbak

Zhang

et al. 2018

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

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“…In addition, these Canadian values, some of which were generated more than 15 years ago, are outdated and may not accurately reflect the general population today. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Current Canadian guideline recommendations are encouraging health outcomes researchers to use estimates reflective of the general Canadian population. 2 Furthermore, given that these recommendations also advocate for the production of stratified economic evaluations when results are heterogeneous, 1,2 there is a clear need for much finer granularity in utility score inputs than what is currently available to produce age-or sex-stratified analyses at the provincial or territorial level.…”

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Age- and sex-specific Canadian utility norms, based on the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey

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Feeny

Tarride

2018

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“…Depression is a prevalent mental health disorder [ 1 ], is associated with an increased risk of suicide [ 2 ], and has comorbidities with multiple physical health conditions such as cardiovascular diseases [ 3 ], diabetes [ 4 ], and fibromyalgia [ 5 ]. Depression also impacts the economy, costing employers US $44 billion every year in the United States [ 6 ].…”

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Perceived Effectiveness and Motivations for the Use of Web-Based Mental Health Programs: Qualitative Study

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Background The prevalence of depression is high and has been stable despite increased treatment, research, and dissemination. People encounter barriers to seeking traditional mental health services, which could be mitigated by using web-based prevention methods. Objective This study aims to understand what people at high risk for depression perceive as effective aspects of web-based mental health programs and what motivates people at high risk for depression to use web-based mental health programs. Methods We conducted an inductive content analysis using telephone interview data from 77 participants at high risk for depression who were recruited from 2 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Participants from the first RCT were working men who had been randomly assigned to 1 of the following 3 groups: control group, who had access to general depression information from a website called BroMatters; intervention group 1, who had access to the BroMatters website along with the associated BroHealth web-based mental health program; and intervention group 2, who had access to the BroMatters website, the BroHealth web-based mental health program, and telephone sessions with a life coach. Participants from the second RCT were men and women who had been assigned to the intervention group, who received access to the HardHat web-based mental health program, or the control group, who only received access to the HardHat web-based mental health program following completion of the RCT. Participants for this inductive content analysis study were recruited from the intervention groups in both RCTs. Two groups of participants (n=41 and n=20) were recruited from the BroHealth RCT, and a third group comprised 16 participants that were recruited from the HardHat RCT. Results We generated four categories regarding the perceived effectiveness of web-based programs and five categories related to what motivates the use of web-based programs. Participants identified awareness, program medium and functionality, program content, and coaches as categories related to the effectiveness of the programs. Categories of motivators to use web-based programs included providing reminders or incentives, promotion of the programs, providing appropriate medium and functionality, appropriate content, and perceived need. The final category related to motivators reflects perceptions of participants who were either unsure about what motivates them or believed that there is no way to motivate use. Conclusions Conflicting evidence was obtained regarding the perceived effectiveness of aspects of the content and functionality of web-based programs. In general, web-based mental health programs were perceived to help increase mental health awareness, especially when it includes live access to a coach. However, the results also revealed that it is difficult to motivate people to begin using web-based mental health programs. Strategies that may motivate the use of such programs include perceived personal need, effective promotion, providing incentives and reminders, and improving functionality.

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Describing the population health burden of depression: health-adjusted life expectancy by depression status in Canada

Cited by 31 publications

References 37 publications

Association Between Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Americans

Association Between Perceived Social Support and Depressive Symptoms Among Community-Dwelling Older Chinese Americans

Age- and sex-specific Canadian utility norms, based on the 2013–2014 Canadian Community Health Survey

Perceived Effectiveness and Motivations for the Use of Web-Based Mental Health Programs: Qualitative Study

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