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SUBMITTER: Croezen S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4493978 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Croezen Simone S Avendano Mauricio M Burdorf Alex A van Lenthe Frank J FJ
American journal of epidemiology 20150529 2
We examined whether changes in different forms of social participation were associated with changes in depressive symptoms in older Europeans. We used lagged individual fixed-effects models based on data from 9,068 persons aged ≥50 years in wave 1 (2004/2005), wave 2 (2006/2007), and wave 4 (2010/2011) of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). After we controlled for a wide set of confounders, increased participation in religious organizations predicted a decline in depre ...[more]