IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/nuhsci/v19y2017i1p88-94.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Nutrient deficiencies and depression in older adults according to sex: A cross sectional study

Author

Listed:
  • Yeon‐Hwan Park
  • Smi Choi‐Kwon
  • Kyung‐Ae Park
  • Minhee Suh
  • Young‐soon Jung

Abstract

This paper explores the prevalence and predicting factors of depression in older Korean community‐dwelling adults, giving special attention to nutrition and social support. Data from male (n = 123) and female (n = 135) older adults were collected in two senior centers in 2009. We found that depression was present in 17.1%. No significant gender difference was found in the prevalence of depression although the predicting factors were gender specific. In male participants, deficient protein intake, having more chronic diseases, and having a subjective perception of difficulties in mastication were predicting factors for depression, whereas deficient vitamin B6 intake, lower cognition, and lack of social support were predicting factors in female participants. The high prevalence of depression, regardless of gender, highlights the urgent need to screen depressed elders. The different predicting factors for depression in male and female older adults suggest a need to develop gender‐specific interventions to alleviate depressive symptoms.

Suggested Citation

  • Yeon‐Hwan Park & Smi Choi‐Kwon & Kyung‐Ae Park & Minhee Suh & Young‐soon Jung, 2017. "Nutrient deficiencies and depression in older adults according to sex: A cross sectional study," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(1), pages 88-94, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:nuhsci:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:88-94
    DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12315
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.12315
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/nhs.12315?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Chun, Heeran & Khang, Young-Ho & Kim, Il-Ho & Cho, Sung-Il, 2008. "Explaining gender differences in ill-health in South Korea: The roles of socio-structural, psychosocial, and behavioral factors," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 67(6), pages 988-1001, September.
    2. Valerie L. Forman-Hoffman & Jon W. Yankey & Stephen L. Hillis & Robert B. Wallace & Fredric D. Wolinsky, 2007. "Weight and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults: Direction of Influence?," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 62(1), pages 43-51.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Oksoo Kim & Eun Yi Yeom & Hae Ok Jeon, 2020. "Relationships between depression, family function, physical symptoms, and illness uncertainty in female patients with chronic kidney disease," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 22(3), pages 548-556, September.
    2. Chika Tanimura & Hiromi Matsumoto & Yasuko Tokushima & Junko Yoshimura & Shinji Tanishima & Hiroshi Hagino, 2018. "Self‐care agency, lifestyle, and physical condition predict future frailty in community‐dwelling older people," Nursing & Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 20(1), pages 31-38, March.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Hiyoshi, Ayako & Fukuda, Yoshiharu & Shipley, Martin J. & Brunner, Eric J., 2014. "Health inequalities in Japan: The role of material, psychosocial, social relational and behavioural factors," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 201-209.
    2. Jibum Kim & Jinkook Lee, 2010. "Disability of Older Koreans Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets," Working Papers WR-811, RAND Corporation.
    3. Bo Kyong Seo & In Hyee Hwang & Yi Sun & Juan Chen, 2022. "Homeownership, Depression, and Life Satisfaction in China: The Gender and Urban-Rural Disparities," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-13, November.
    4. Yang, Seungmi & Khang, Young-Ho & Chun, Heeran & Harper, Sam & Lynch, John, 2012. "The changing gender differences in life expectancy in Korea 1970–2005," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(7), pages 1280-1287.
    5. Trevor Peckham & Noah Seixas & A. B. de Castro & Anjum Hajat, 2022. "Do Different Patterns of Employment Quality Contribute to Gender Health Inequities in the U.S.? A Cross-Sectional Mediation Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(18), pages 1-18, September.
    6. Woohyun Yoo, 2022. "Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in South Korea: Moderating Role of mHealth Technologies," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(3), pages 1-13, February.
    7. Takahashi, Shuko & Jang, Soong-nang & Kino, Shiho & Kawachi, Ichiro, 2020. "Gender inequalities in poor self-rated health: Cross-national comparison of South Korea and Japan," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 252(C).
    8. Seung-Eun Cha & Ki-Soo Eun, 2014. "Gender Difference in Sleep Problems: Focused on Time Use in Daily Life of Korea," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 119(3), pages 1447-1465, December.
    9. Belinda L. Needham & Soojung Kim & Erica Concors & Jeffrey J. Wing, 2017. "Trends in Gender Differences in Self-Rated Health in Korea: Evidence from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2012," Global Journal of Health Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(5), pages 196-196, May.
    10. Xin Gao & Tieying Feng, 2020. "Public Pension, Labor Force Participation, and Depressive Symptoms across Gender among Older Adults in Rural China: A Moderated Mediation Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(9), pages 1-13, May.
    11. Arigo, Danielle & Ainsworth, M. Cole & Pasko, Kristen & Brown, Megan M. & Travers, Laura, 2021. "Predictors of change in BMI over 10 years among midlife and older adults: Associations with gender, CVD risk status, depressive symptoms, and social support," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 279(C).
    12. Jibum Kim & Jinkook Lee, 2010. "Disability of Older Koreans Evidence on Prevalence and the Role of Education from Five Data Sets," Working Papers 811, RAND Corporation.
    13. Santosh Jatrana, 2021. "Gender differences in self-reported health and psychological distress among New Zealand adults," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 45(21), pages 693-726.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:nuhsci:v:19:y:2017:i:1:p:88-94. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://doi.org/10.1111/(ISSN)1442-2018 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.