PURPOSE To investigate the online communications and self-disclosure practices of youth reporting depressive symptomatology. METHOD The Youth Internet Safety Survey was a nationally representative telephone survey of 1501 Internet-using youth between the ages of 10 and 17 years, and one caregiver in their household. Fifty-three percent of youth participants were male and 73% were white race. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Recently, there are few studies reporting on depressive status and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) in China. A large-sample survey was to be performed to explore the prevalence of depressive status and related factors in Chinese patients with OSA. METHODS From among a randomly-selected group of OSA patients, 1,327 met inclusion criteria. After screening with the Sympto...

PURPOSE To evaluate the relationship between depressive symptoms and health care costs in outpatients with chronic medical illnesses in Korea, we screened for depressive symptoms in 1,118 patients with a chronic medical illness and compared the severity of somatic symptoms and health care costs. PATIENTS AND METHODS Data were compared between outpatients with depressive symptoms and those wit...

Depressive symptomatology is a prevalent and disabling condition in older adults, considered as public health problem due to its devastating consequences reducing the chances successfully age. The objective of this study analyze role depressive risk factor for successful aging adults.

OBJECTIVE To compare loneliness, depressive symptoms and major depressive episodes between empty-nest and not-empty-nest older adults in rural areas of Liuyang city, Hunan, China. METHODS A cross-sectional multi-stage random cluster survey was conducted from November 2011 to April 2012 in Liuyang, China. A total of 839 rural older residents aged 60 or above completed the survey (response rate...

Individuals with depressive symptoms typically show deficits in decision-making. However, most work has emphasized decision-making under gain-maximization conditions. A gainmaximization framework may undermine decision-making when depressive symptoms are present because depressives are generally more sensitive to losses than gains. The present study examined decision making in a non-clinical sa...

Depressive symptoms may co-occur within couples and follow similar trajectories, but relatively little is known about this process in old age. This study thus examined the association between some spousal characteristics (spouse's depressive symptoms, age difference between spouses) and the trajectory of depressive symptoms in older adults. Participants ≥ 65 years old were drawn from the Health...

BACKGROUND The present study investigated the prevalence of depressive symptoms in older Koreans and identified associations between depressive symptoms and occupational factors. METHODS Data from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey V (2010-2012) were used to analyze 7320 participants aged 55 years or older. Complex sample logistic regression analysis was performed aft...

BACKGROUND depression remains a major public health problem that is most often evaluated and treated in primary care settings. The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence, treatment, and control of depressive symptoms in a national data sample using a common primary care screening tool for depression. METHODS we analyzed a sample of adults (n = 4836) from 2005 to 2008 National H...

OBJECTIVE To investigate quality of life and its association with depression in patients with major depressive disorder. METHOD The study included 74 patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder according to DSM-IV. The Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) was used to assess the severity of depression; and the, Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 (MOS SF-36) and EuroQol 5-D (EQ-5D) ...