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Urban-rural and gender differential in depressive symptoms among elderly in India

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Background To date, evidence remained inconclusive explaining rural-urban and male-female differential in depression. Unlike other previous research on the association of several risk factors with depressive symptoms among the elderly, this study focussed on the socio-economic status-related inequality in the prevalence of depression among the elderly along with focussing urban-rural and male-female gradients of depression among the elderly. Methods This study used data from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) Wave-I, 2017-18, survey. The outcome variable for this study was self-reported depression. Bivariate analysis was used to understand the prevalence by sociodemographic clusters. Fairlie decomposition analysis has been done to measures rural-urban inequalities for depression among older men and women. Results Results found that around 22 percent of urban elderly and 17 percent of rural elderly reported depression. A higher proportion of female elderly (22.6% vs. 18.4%) reported depression than male elderly. Almost one in every five elderly (20.6%) reported depression in India. The results found that a higher percentage of women in rural and urban areas reported depression than their male counterparts. While examining SES-related inequality in the prevalence of depression, education was a significant factor explaining the SES-related inequality in the prevalence of depression among female elderly and not in male elderly. Conclusion Given the large proportion of elderly reporting depression, this study highlights the need for improving health care services among the elderly. The increasing burden of depression in specific sub-populations also highlights the importance of understanding the broader consequences of depression among rural and female elderly.
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hal-04035936 , version 1 (19-03-2023)

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Shubham Kumar, Shekhar Chauhan, Ratna Patel, Manish Kumar, David Jean Simon. Urban-rural and gender differential in depressive symptoms among elderly in India. Dialogues in Health, 2023, 2, pp.100114. ⟨10.1016/j.dialog.2023.100114⟩. ⟨hal-04035936⟩
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