Depressive symptomatology in northern Mexico adults.
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 77 (9) , 1215-1218
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.9.1215
Abstract
A cross-sectional field survey of 991 people in Tijuana, Mexico, a border city experiencing unbridled population growth, was designed to measure levels of depressive symptoms and identify correlates using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression measure (CES-D). Bivariate and multivariate analyses of the data indicate that similar variables are highly associated with depressive symptoms in the US and Mexico: low socioeconomic status, female gender, disrupted marital status, unemployment, and poor health. Risk-for-caseness is 19.1 per cent for males and 33.0 per cent for females.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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