Prevalence And Associated Factors Of Depressive Symptoms In Chinese Elderly Women: 1703 Board #297 May 28 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM

PURPOSE: To explore the prevalence and associated factors of depressive symptoms among Chinese elderly women. METHODS: The public data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study collected in 2015 was adopted, and 2575 female participants aged 60 years and above were included in this study. Part of observed variables of demographics, family transfer, health status and functioning portions were used. Depressive symptoms was measured using the 10-item version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Analysis of variance and Pearson’s χ2 test were adopted to compare the differences among subgroups, and univariate and multivariate logistic regression models were applied to explore associations between different factors and depressive symptoms. RESULTS: The mean age of the participants was 69.16 ± 7.22 years old, the mean score of CED-10 scale was 10.23 ± 7.05, about 46.45% participants had depressive symptoms last month. Multiple regression analysis revealed that higher odd ratio of depressive symptoms appeared in the following subgroups: older age (OR = 1.98, 95% CI = 1.41-2.79) , not living with spouse (OR = 1.31, 95% CI = 1.07-1.60), living in further area from main city zone (OR = 1.49, 95% CI = 1.17-1.90), providing more economic supports to children last year (OR = 2.93, 95% CI = 1.45-5.92), lower parent-child relationship satisfaction (OR = 3.42, 95% CI = 1.86-6.32), poorer self-reported health status (OR = 3.24, 95% CI = 1.77-5.96), lower score of instrumental activities of daily living scale (OR = 2.75, 95% CI = 1.97-3.85), lower health status satisfaction (OR = 3.06, 95% CI = 1.53-6.10) and shorter sleep duration at night last month (OR = 2.09, 95% CI = 1.64-2.65). CONCLUSIONS: There was a high prevalence of depressive symptoms among Chinese elderly women, and it was significantly related to demographics, interaction with children and health status. Targeting these issues might be helpful in screening and reducing depression among Chinese elderly women.