Bengbu Medical College Reports Findings in Geriatrics and Gerontology (Exploring the relationship between depression and different multimorbidity patterns among older people covered by long-term care insurance in Shanghai, China): Aging Research – Geriatrics and Gerontology

2021 NOV 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- New research on Aging Research - Geriatrics and Gerontology is the subject of a report. According to news originating from Bengbu, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Depression is common in patients with multimorbidity, but little is known about the relationship between depression and multimorbidity. The purpose of our research was to investigate multimorbidity patterns and their association with depression in a sample of older people covered by long-term care insurance in Shanghai, China.”

Financial support for this research came from National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Bengbu Medical College, “This was a population-based cross-sectional study, with 1871 participants aged 60 years old who are covered by Shanghai long-term care insurance. Multimorbidity was defined as the presence of two or more chronic diseases at the same time. We collected information on chronic conditions using a self-reported medical history, and we used the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-30) to evaluate depressive symptoms. Patterns of multimorbidity were identified with exploratory factor analysis, using oblimin rotation. Logistic regression was used to estimate the relationship between multimorbidity patterns and depressive symptoms. Among the participants, the prevalence of multimorbidity was 64.7%, and the prevalence of depression was 64.6%. Hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease (CVD), and cataracts showed strong associations with depression when co-occurring with other conditions. Three patterns of multimorbidity were identified: a musculoskeletal pattern, cardiometabolic pattern, and degenerative disease pattern. Among these, the cardiometabolic (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) 1.223; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.102, 1.357) and degenerative disease (AOR 1.185; 95% CI 1.071, 1.311) patterns were associated with a higher risk of depressive symptoms. Two of three multimorbidity patterns were found to be associated with depression.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Physical and psychological dimensions require greater attention in the care of older adults who are covered by long-term care insurance.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Exploring the relationship between depression and different multimorbidity patterns among older people covered by long-term care insurance in Shanghai, China. Psychogeriatrics, 2021. Psychogeriatrics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Psychogeriatrics - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1479-8301)

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Wenjia Peng, Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Cancan Li, Mengying Li, Xinghui Li, Tingting Yang, Huosheng Yan, Zijing Wang, Xianjie Jia, Zhi Hu and Ying Wang.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/psyg.12783. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Psychogeriatrics is: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA.

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