Social contacts and depression in middle and advanced adulthood: Findings from a US national survey, 2005–2008

McKenzie, Lindsey E.; Polur, Ram N.; Wesley, Cholrelia; Allen, Jessica; McKeown, Robert E.; Zhang, Jian

doi:10.1177/0020764012463302

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“…To facilitate data analyses, the number of close friends was re-coded into four categories to identify distinct sizes of network: 0; 1–4; 5–9 and 10 or more close friends, and church attendance was re-coded as never, occasionally, weekly and more than weekly, categorisations previously used by McKenzie et al . (31) . Body mass index (BMI) was re-coded to underweight, normal, overweight and obese based on the WHO classification (32) .…”

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Social support, adherence to Mediterranean diet and physical activity in adults: results from a community-based cross-sectional study

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There is a growing recognition that social support can potentially exert consistent or opposing effects in influencing health behaviours. The present paper presents a cross-sectional study, including 2,064 adults from Italy, Spain and Greece, who were participants in a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (C4H study), aiming to examine whether social support is correlated with adherence to a healthy Mediterranean diet and physical activity. Social support data were available for 1,572 participants. The majority of the sample reported emotional support availability (84·5 %), financial support availability (72·6 %) and having one or more close friends (78·2 %). Mediterranean diet adherence was significantly associated with emotional support (P = 0·009) and social network support (P = 0·021). No statistically significant associations were found between participant physical activity and the social support aspects studied. In conclusion, emotional and social network support may be associated with increased adherence to the Mediterranean diet. However, further research is needed to evaluate the role of social support in adherence to healthy Mediterranean diet.

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Social support, adherence to Mediterranean diet and physical activity in adults: results from a community-based cross-sectional study

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“…Compared with respondents who had 10 or more friends, the odds ratios (ORs) for depression were 4.01 (95% CI=1.89–8.50) and 1.86 (95% CI=0.92–3.79), respectively, for men and women who did not have close friends 48 .…”

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The influence of physical activity, social relationships, and diet intake on depression: a case-series study

Nabdi

Boujraf

Benzagmout

2023

Annals of Medicine &Amp; Surgery

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Introduction: This paper aims to investigate the three areas [diet, physical activity (PA), and social relationship] and their relationship with depressive disorders in the North African population. Study design: This is an observational cross-sectional study of 654 participants residing in the urban commune of Fez (n=326) and the rural commune of Loulja (n=328) in the province of Taounate. Participants were categorized into two groups: G1 without a current depressive episode and G2 with a current depressive episode. Risk factors, including locality, gender, marital status, age, parental status, employment status, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, social habits, and dietary patterns, were assessed. A multinomial probit model in Stata software was used to identify factors associated with depression occurrence in the population. Results: A total of 94.52% of the participants who engaged in PA did not experience a depressive episode (P=0.001). Additionally, 45.39% of the participants in our series were on a processed diet and presented with a depressive disorder (P=0.0001), the social contact (time spent with friends >1.5 h) remained strongly associated with reduced depressive symptoms when comparing the two groups (P=0.001). The results showed that being rural, a smoker, an alcohol user, and having no spouse significantly increased depression in participants. The coefficient of age was negatively related to the probability of the occurrence of age-related depression; however, this factor was not significant in the model. Thus, having a spouse and/or children and spending time with friends on a healthy diet significantly decreased depression in our population. Discussion: The converging evidence suggests that physical exercise, a stable social relationship, a healthy diet, and the use of PA can alleviate depression symptoms, but limited understanding and few studies have attempted to characterize or identify the neural mechanisms of these effects. Conclusion: Nonpharmaceutical interventions such as PA and dietary changes have proven to be effective treatments for depression, while maintaining positive social relationships can act as a protective factor, serving a prophylactic role in the prevention of depression.

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“…Based on previous studies, some factors associated with social support and depressive symptoms, such as eating behavior [36], loneliness, anxiety [37], physical activity [38,39], sedentary behavior [6], which were considered as control variables in the statistical analysis. We also controlled for demographic variables such as socioeconomic status, sex, age.…”

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Can Social Support be Protective against Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents from 24 Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

Wu¹,

Yi²,

Guo³

2023

International Journal of Mental Health Promotion

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Background: Adolescents are highly vulnerable to depressive symptoms worldwide partially because of limited social supports. However, it still remains largely unknown regarding the associations between social support(s) and depressive symptoms among adolescents living in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this study aimed to explore the associations between different types of social support and depressive symptoms in adolescents from LMICs. Methods: Data were retrieved from the Global School-based Health Survey (GSHS) in which 92,551 adolescents (50.6% females) were included with mean of 15.6 years. Depressive symptoms in the past one month as the dependent variable were measured in combination with social support (was measured by "During the past 30 days, how often were most of the students in your school kind and helpful?"). Multivariable logistic regression and meta-analysis of country-wise estimates were performed to investigate the associations between social support and depressive symptoms, and the heterogeneity of the associations across the countries, respectively. Results: The prevalence of depressive symptoms was 30.9% of adolescents from LMICs. Peer support and parental connectedness were two major factors that were significantly associated with depression symptoms in adolescents. However, the associations of peer support and parental connectedness with depressive symptoms were significant in males and females, respectively. The country-wise analysis indicated that varied inconsistency (small to large) across the associations of peer support and parental connectedness with depressive symptoms in adolescents. Conclusion: Results in this study provides multi-national evidence of the protective roles of social support against depressive symptoms among adolescents. However, the association between social support and depression symptoms may be moderated by sex and types of social support. Although we found that social support may be an important protective factor against depressive symptoms in adolescents from LMICs, specifically designed interventions should be implemented based on sex difference and country difference.

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Social contacts and depression in middle and advanced adulthood: Findings from a US national survey, 2005–2008

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Social support, adherence to Mediterranean diet and physical activity in adults: results from a community-based cross-sectional study

Social support, adherence to Mediterranean diet and physical activity in adults: results from a community-based cross-sectional study

The influence of physical activity, social relationships, and diet intake on depression: a case-series study

Can Social Support be Protective against Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents from 24 Low- and Middle-Income Countries?

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