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Exploring the Correlates to Depression in Elder Abuse Victims: Abusive Experience or Individual Characteristics?

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dc.contributor.authorSantos, Ana João
dc.contributor.authorNunes, Baltazar
dc.contributor.authorKislaya, Irina
dc.contributor.authorGil, Ana Paula
dc.contributor.authorRibeiro, Oscar
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-14T17:20:41Z
dc.date.available2018-09-21T00:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2017-09-20
dc.description.abstractDepression and depressive symptoms have been studied both as risk factors and consequences of elder abuse, even though the most common cross-sectional design of the studies does not allow inferring cause or consequence relationships. This study estimates the proportion of older adults who screened positive for depressive symptoms among those self-reporting elder abuse and examines whether individual characteristics and/or abusive experience aspects are associated with self-reported depressive symptoms. Participants were 510 older adults self-reporting experiences of abuse in family setting enrolled in the cross-sectional victims’ survey of the Aging and Violence Study. Depressive symptoms were assessed through the abbreviated version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-5). Poisson regression was used to determine the prevalence ratio (PR) of screening depressive symptoms according to individual and abusive experience covariates: sex, age group, cohabitation, perceived social support, chronic diseases, functional status, violence type, perpetrator, and number of conducts. Women (PR = 1.18, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [1.04, 1.35]) individuals perceiving low social support level (PR = 1.36, 95% CI = [1.16, 1.60]) and with long-term illness (PR = 1.17, 95% CI = [1.02, 1.33]) were found to be associated with increased risk for screening depressive symptoms. In regard to abusive experience, only the number of abusive conducts increased the PR (PR = 1.07, 95% CI = [1.05, 1.09]). Routine screening for elder abuse should include psychological well-being assessment. Interventions toward risk alleviation for both mental health problems and elder abuse should target women perceiving low social support level and with long-term illness.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationJ Interpers Violence. 2017 Sep 1:886260517732346. doi: 10.1177/0886260517732346. [Epub ahead of print]pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0886260517732346pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn0886-2605
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/4960
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationspt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0886260517732346pt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectEder Abusept_PT
dc.subjectVulnerability to Abusept_PT
dc.subjectDepressive Symptomspt_PT
dc.subjectDomestic Violencept_PT
dc.subjectDeterminantes da Saúde e da Doençapt_PT
dc.subjectViolênciapt_PT
dc.subjectPessoas Idosaspt_PT
dc.subjectDepressãopt_PT
dc.titleExploring the Correlates to Depression in Elder Abuse Victims: Abusive Experience or Individual Characteristics?pt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage20pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage1pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Interpersonal Violencept_PT
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rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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