Impact of social, familial and personal factors on depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults from the national CHARLS cohort

• Main Authors: Xiaoqian Zhang (Author), Mei Xue (Author), Zifeng Zhang (Author), Ziyu Gao (Author), Chunyan Li (Author), Jing Wu (Author), Wenquan Niu (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background This study aimed to evaluate whether social, familial and personal factors can predict incident and prevalent depressive symptoms in Chinese adults aged ≥ 45 years using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Methods Study subjects without depressi...