Observational studyThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2018
Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Functioning and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adult Spouses in the Cardiovascular Health Study.
Observational study in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Quality of relationship, depression, and sleep quality in patients with chronic heart failure and their spouse: an Actor-Partner Interdependence Model.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Gendered Marital Power, Depression, and Cognition Among Older Adults in Mexico.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Longitudinal associations between cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms among couples in the Mexican Health and Aging Study.International psychogeriatrics · 2023Article
- The Associations between Cognitive Function, Depressive Symptoms, and Contact with Adult Children in Older Couples.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The longitudinal association between possible new sarcopenia and the depression trajectory of individuals and their intimate partners.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Depressive symptoms in older adult couples: Associations with dyadic physical health, social engagement, and close friends.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Spousal Concordance in the Development of Functional Limitations Among Married Adults in China.JAMA network open · 2021Article
- Cognitive limitations in older adults receiving care reduces well-being among spouse caregivers.Psychology and aging · 2020Article
- Memory, Mood, and Marriage: Examining the Interplay in Older Adults.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveTo examine the bidirectional associations between older adult spouses' cognitive functioning and depressive symptoms over time.
designLongitudinal, dyadic path analysis with the actor-partner interdependence model.
settingData were from visit 5 (1992/1993), visit 8 (1995/1996), and visit 11 (1998/1999) of the Cardiovascular Health Study, a multisite, longitudinal, observational study of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in adults 65 years or older. Demographic information was from the 1989/1990 original and 1992/1993 African American cohort baseline visits.
participantsHusbands and wives from 1,028 community-dwelling married couples (N = 2,065). MEASUREMENTS: Cognitive functioning was measured with the Modified Mini-Mental State Exam. Depressive symptoms were measured using the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Age, education, and disability (activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living) were included as covariates.
resultsCross-partner associations (partner effects) revealed that one spouse's greater depressive symptoms predicted the other spouse's lower cognitive functioning, but a spouse's lower cognitive functioning did not predict the other spouse's greater depressive symptoms over time. Within-individual associations (actor effects) revealed that an individual's lower cognitive functioning predicted the individual's greater depressive symptoms over time, but greater depressive symptoms did not predict lower cognitive functioning over time. Effects did not differ for husbands and wives.
conclusionHaving a spouse who is depressed may increase one's risk of cognitive decline as well as one's risk of depression. Interventions for preventing cognitive decline and depression among older adults may be enhanced by considering the marital context.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.