Association between activities of daily living disability and depression symptoms of middle-aged and older Chinese adults and their spouses: A community based study

Depression is a non-communicable disease with significant global disease burden (GBD  2016 DALYs and HALE Collaborators, 2017). In China, depression is also a common disease and major public health challenge with urgent needs of prevention. A recent systemic analysis conducted by Baxter et al showed that 2.2% of men and 3.3% of women in China suffered from major depressive disord er (Baxter et al., 2016), and other studies reported that, in recent decades, disease burden of depression had been and would still be progressively increasing in China (Charlson et al., 2016; Yang et al., 2013).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - August 16, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Minfu He, Juan Ma, Zheng Ren, Ge Zhou, Ping Gong, Meitian Liu, Xiaodi Yang, Wenjing Xiong, Qi Wang, Hongjian Liu, Xiumin Zhang Source Type: research