Socioeconomic Factors Related to Prevalence, Severity, and Contact Coverage of Depression in Primary Health Care

Tüzün, Hakan; DEMİRKÖSE, Hacer; Özkan, Seçil; İlhan, Mustafa

doi:10.5152/pcp.2021.21051

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“…Therefore, addressing the gender gap in depression treatment remains crucial in public health strategies (4,37,38). Furthermore, there is an association between lower educational levels, lower wealth quintiles, and a decreased likelihood of looking for treatment for depressed symptoms (11,39,40). In this situation, sociodemographic characteristics, especially wealth, intricately connected with education (41)(42)(43).…”

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Sociodemographic characteristics related to inequality in depression treatment in Peruvian adults: a concentration index decomposition approach

Intimayta-Escalante

2024

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Background Depressive symptoms affect a significant proportion of Peruvian population, between 13.8% and 15.1% since 2014 to 2018. However, only the 14.1% did not receive treatment, this gap in treatment is influenced for sociodemographic conditions. The study aim was assessing demographic characteristics related to inequalities in the depression treatment receiving in Peruvian adults.Methods Utilizing data from the 2017–2022 Demographic and Health Survey, we conducted an analytic cross-sectional study. Inequality in treatment receipt was evaluated using concentration curves for estimated Concentration Index (CI), and the Erreygers Concentration Index (ECI), with the wealth index serving as an equity stratified. Decomposition analysis was employed to examine disparities among sociodemographic characteristics, including sex, age, education, residence, health insurance, and ethnicity.Results Of the 35,925 Peruvian adults with depressive symptoms surveyed, only 10.82% received treatment. Our analysis revealed treatment recipients were concentrated in higher wealth quintiles (CI: 22.08, 95% CI: 20.16 to 24.01, p < 0.01). Disparities persisted across various demographic groups, with urban residency (ECI: 0.03, 95% CI: 0.02 to 0.03, p < 0.001), those without education (ECI: 0.05, 95% CI: 0.03 to 0.07, p < 0.001), Afro-Peruvians (ECI: 0.06, 95% CI: 0.04 to 0.08, p < 0.001), and women (ECI: 0.07, 95% CI: 0.06 to 0.08, p < 0.001) experiencing lower received treatment, influenced by wealth quintile.Conclusion Only one in ten Peruvian adults with depressive symptoms received treatment. Sociodemographic conditions such as living in rural areas, outside of the capital region, having low educational level, and identifying as Quechua or Aymara were the main components of inequality in the receipt of treatment for depressive symptoms.

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Sociodemographic characteristics related to inequality in depression treatment in Peruvian adults: a concentration index decomposition approach

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“…With respect to the unemployment rate in specific terms, that is, the percentage of people looking for a job who have not found one, a higher female unemployment rate has also been found (Annequin et al, 2016;Constantinescu et al, 2021). These results can be explained by women's responsibility for caring for the home and children in some countries (Alfarran et al, 2018;Bastas and Aydindag, 2020) and by health problems that can hinder women's participation in work activities (Amiri, 2022;Tüzün et al, 2021). Moreover, important differences in social roles between women and men have been identified in several countries (Mustafa and Almazrouei°, 2020;Alexander et al, 2022), and significant gender gaps in access to work and income levels for the same job have been found in Latin America (Camps-Cura, 2019; Galperin and Arcidiacono, 2021).…”

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Effect of Personality Traits and Demographics on the Employment Status of Latin American Students

Barrera-Verdugo,

Cadena-Echeverría,

Villarroel-Villarroel

et al. 2023

Acad. J. Interdiscip. Stud.

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Personality traits have been highlighted as factors that affect workers’ behaviour, such as their performance or labour engagement. However, little is currently known about the personality differences between Latin American university students who perform self-employment activities, those who are dependent workers and those who are nonworkers. This research fills this knowledge gap by assessing the influence of the personality traits of 758 university students from Latin America on their employment status. In addition, the effect of gender and age cohort on students’ employment status is assessed. A logistic regression analysis is conducted using the personality traits of the Big Six model, gender and belonging to the millennial generation as independent variables has been conducted. The results support the significant effect of openness, conscientiousness and extraversion on students' employment status. Likewise, effects of gender and age are found. The results contribute to a better understanding of how individual conditions may affect the work activity of university students with regard to dependent employment, self-employment and work inactivity. In addition, the results can guide efforts to support entrepreneurship through the design of effective training programmes according to the students' personality traits and demographic characteristics. Received: 9 May 2023 / Accepted: 27 July 2023 / Published: 5 September 2023

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Depression and health literacy among adolescents and adults in Germany: findings from two representative samples

König,

Schröder,

Hamer

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionDepressive disorders constitute a significant public health challenge. Health literacy might be an important factor to consider in prevention strategies for depressive disorders, which is why this study aimed at exploring the association between depressive symptom levels and severity and health literacy, along with additional sociodemographic factors.Materials and methodsData were collected from two large samples of adults (N = 3,011) and adolescents (N = 1,021) representative of the German-speaking population in Germany. Levels of health literacy (HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire), depressive symptom severity, rates of depression levels (PHQ-9 questionnaire) and sociodemographic information (age, gender, social status, level of education) were obtained. The associations between sociodemographic factors, health literacy and depression were analyzed using t-tests, analyses of variance and χ2-tests.ResultsOverall, rates of depression were high in both samples (16.5% in adults and 18.4% in adolescents) when measured with the sum score ≥ 10 cut-off criterion and substantially lower when assessed with the diagnostic algorithm criterion (7.2% in adults and 9.8% in adolescents). Rates of depression and severity of depressive symptoms were higher in female than male individuals in both samples. Depressive symptom severity and depression rates increased with increasing age in adolescents and decreased with increasing age in adults. Higher levels of education and lower social status were associated with higher depressive symptom severity and rates in adults, with a more heterogeneous picture in adolescents. In both samples, depressive symptom severity and rates were higher in individuals with poorer health literacy.DiscussionThe results point to a potential role for health literacy in preventing depressive disorders. More research is needed with longitudinal and experimental study designs into the question whether public health interventions targeting health literacy improvements could play a critical role in reducing the burden of depression across different age cohorts.

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Socioeconomic Factors Related to Prevalence, Severity, and Contact Coverage of Depression in Primary Health Care

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Sociodemographic characteristics related to inequality in depression treatment in Peruvian adults: a concentration index decomposition approach

Sociodemographic characteristics related to inequality in depression treatment in Peruvian adults: a concentration index decomposition approach

Effect of Personality Traits and Demographics on the Employment Status of Latin American Students

Depression and health literacy among adolescents and adults in Germany: findings from two representative samples

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