"A Critical Review of Trajectories of Depression for Middle Aged Adults"

Jaewon Lee

doi:10.26717/bjstr.2021.35.005731

Abstract

Jaewon Lee1* and Jennifer Allen2 Author Affiliations 1Department of Social Welfare, Assistant Professor, Inha University, South Korea 2Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, Michigan State University, USA Received: February 17, 2021 | Published: May 06, 2021 Corresponding author: Jaewon Lee, Department of Social Welfare, Assistant Professor, Inha University, South Korea DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2021.35.005731

Highlights

[2] examined an adult population and found that depression trajectories showed a non-linear change, their sample was limited to individuals living in Scotland, who are not representative of Americans [3]. examined Americans in their sample; the study focused on ethnic differences in depression over time and the analysis did not reveal trajectories of depression
In a sample of Australian women aged 45 to 50, low educational attainment and unemployment were related to poor mental health [6]
The author conducted a secondary analysis of two waves from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, their sample included individuals born in 1939, and they analyzed the data set based on random-effects pooled time-series models [8]

Summary

Introduction

Research has shown that poor mental health among middleaged adults is significantly related to economic factors, such as financial challenges and unemployment. For middle-aged adults aged 40 to 59, [1] examined depressive symptom trajectory classes via a latent class trajectories analysis. Even though the authors examined middle-aged participants, they did not explore patterns of change in depression and the sample was limited to Asians.

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