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Briones DF, Heller PL, Carcoba LM, et al. Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of educational attainment. Depress Res Treat. 2011;2011:908536doi: 10.1155/2011/908536.
Briones, D. F., Heller, P. L., Carcoba, L. M., Weisman, H. W., Ledger, E. M., & Escamilla, M. A. (2011). Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of educational attainment. Depression research and treatment, 2011908536. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/908536
Briones, David F, et al. "Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of educational attainment." Depression research and treatment vol. 2011 (2011): 908536. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/908536
Briones DF, Heller PL, Carcoba LM, Weisman HW, Ledger EM, Escamilla MA. Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of educational attainment. Depress Res Treat. 2011;2011:908536. doi: 10.1155/2011/908536. Epub 2011 Aug 15. PMID: 21860790; PMCID: PMC3157197.
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Depress Res Treat. 2011;2011:908536. doi: 10.1155/2011/908536. Epub 2011 Aug 15.

Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of educational attainment.

Depression research and treatment

David F Briones, Peter L Heller, Luis M Carcoba, Henry W Weisman, Elizabeth M Ledger, Michael A Escamilla

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, TX 79905, USA.

PMID: 21860790 PMCID: PMC3157197 DOI: 10.1155/2011/908536

Abstract

We investigated the prevalence of "high" levels of depressive symptomatology and 13 health-related medical conditions in elderly Mexican American (MA) and non-Hispanic white (NHW) residents of El Paso County, Texas. We analyzed the extent to which depressive symptoms in this population are associated with these conditions. Elderly MA residents possessed a higher prevalence of current depression, a relatively unique health-related condition profile, and were more likely to experience a set of conditions that impede participation in daily life-conditions that we found to be strongly associated with high depressive symptomatology in the elderly. After adjusting for educational attainment, using multiple regression analyses, depression was not associated with ethnicity and only six of the health related conditions showed significant differences between MA and NHW subjects. We believe these results provide an important insight into the mechanism of health-related conditions and depressive symptomatology in a large sample of elderly MAs; and how conditions typically attributed to MA ethnicity may in actuality be an artifact of socioeconomic status variables such as educational-attainment.

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