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Association between childhood adversities and adulthood depressive symptoms in South Korea: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine how childhood adversity (ie, parental death, parental divorce, suspension of school education due to financial strain or being raised in a relative's house due to financial strain) is associated with prevalence and incidence of adulthood depressive symptoms and whether this association differs by gender and by age in South Korea.

Design

Prospective cohort design.

Setting

Nationally representative longitudinal survey in South Korea.

Participants

11 526 participants in South Korea.

Outcome measure

Prevalence and incidence of adulthood depressive symptoms were assessed as a dichotomous variable using the Centers for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale in 2006 and 2007.

Results

In the prevalence analysis, each of the four childhood adversities was significantly associated with a higher prevalence of adulthood depressive symptoms. The higher incidence of depressive symptoms was associated with suspension of school education (OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.32 to 1.82) and parental divorce (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.00 to 2.71). In the age-stratified analyses, prevalence of depressive symptoms was associated with all CAs across different adulthoods, except for parental divorce and late adulthood depressive symptoms. After being stratified by gender, the association was significant for parental divorce (OR 3.76, 95% CI 2.34 to 6.03) in the prevalence analysis and for being raised in a relative's house (OR 1.89, 95% CI 1.21 to 2.94) in the incidence analysis only among women.

Conclusions

This study suggests that childhood adversity may increase prevalence and incidence of adulthood depressive symptoms, and the impact of parental divorce or being raised in a relative's house due to financial strain on adulthood depressive symptoms may differ by gender.

SUBMITTER: Kim SS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3717452 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association between childhood adversities and adulthood depressive symptoms in South Korea: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study.

Kim Seung-Sup SS Jang Hyobum H Chang Hyoung Yoon HY Park Young Su YS Lee Dong-Woo DW

BMJ open 20130721 7

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PMID: 23878171

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Dataset Information

Association between childhood adversities and adulthood depressive symptoms in South Korea: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study.

Objective

Design

Setting

Participants

Outcome measure

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Association between childhood adversities and adulthood depressive symptoms in South Korea: results from a nationally representative longitudinal study.

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