TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk factors for depressive symptomatology in a drug using population
AU - Buckner, J. C.
AU - Mandell, W.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1990
Y1 - 1990
N2 - This study employs a prospective design to examine possible personality, drug use, stressful life event, and social support-related variabilities with the onset of a depressive episode in a cohort of psychoactive drug using young adults. Two waves of data, collected one year apart, were available on 942 individuals. Cases (n = 62) were free of depressive symptoms at time 1 but reported significant symptomatology at time 2 as measured by the depression subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory. Controls (n = 490) were those free of depressive symptoms at both time points. In multivariate analyses, users of the central nervous system depressant methaqualone had a nearly four-fold elevated risk for depressed mood as compared to nonusers. Additional risk factors significant after multivariate adjustment included lower self-esteem at time 1 and negative life events. These results highlight the multifactorial nature of depressive symptomatology.
AB - This study employs a prospective design to examine possible personality, drug use, stressful life event, and social support-related variabilities with the onset of a depressive episode in a cohort of psychoactive drug using young adults. Two waves of data, collected one year apart, were available on 942 individuals. Cases (n = 62) were free of depressive symptoms at time 1 but reported significant symptomatology at time 2 as measured by the depression subscale of the Brief Symptom Inventory. Controls (n = 490) were those free of depressive symptoms at both time points. In multivariate analyses, users of the central nervous system depressant methaqualone had a nearly four-fold elevated risk for depressed mood as compared to nonusers. Additional risk factors significant after multivariate adjustment included lower self-esteem at time 1 and negative life events. These results highlight the multifactorial nature of depressive symptomatology.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.80.5.580
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.80.5.580
M3 - Article
C2 - 2327536
AN - SCOPUS:0025344129
VL - 80
SP - 580
EP - 585
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
SN - 0090-0036
IS - 5
ER -