纵向研究
认知
萧条(经济学)
中国
健康与退休研究
心理学
临床心理学
老年学
医学
精神科
抑郁症状
政治学
法学
病理
经济
宏观经济学
作者
Lina Zhou,Xiancang Ma,Wei Wang
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2020.12.059
摘要
In China, an increasing number of people are aging; therefore, attention should be paid to age-related cognitive impairment. With the increasing attention given to geriatric depression in recent years, we focused our investigation on the relationship between depression in the elderly and cognitive decline in a large Chinese community study.We screened 4,771 subjects that met the inclusion criteria from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study database. Depressive symptoms and cognitive performance were assessed using the 10-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) and Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), respectively.We found that 4.46% of the elderly have depression and 35.19% have depressive symptoms. Lower education, higher CESD-10 score, increased age, and more negative marital status were associated with poor cognitive performance in the Chinese elderly. CESD-10 is negatively correlated with each MMSE item, including orientation, memory, attention and computation, and language.It was difficult to draw conclusions about causation since there was no follow-up data, and high CESD-10 scores do not represent the population study finally diagnosed with depression. Finally, it is not clear whether the decline in cognitive function had an impact on participants' understanding of the problems in the CESD-10.This study preliminary prompted severe depressive symptoms associated with worse cognitive performance in a Chinese elderly community population.
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