ArticleFrontiers in public health2022
Depressive symptoms homophily among community-dwelling older adults in japan: A social networks analysis.
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- The Frailty, Fitness, and Psychophysical/Social Condition of Community-Dwelling Older Adults-Analysis of 5-Year Longitudinal Data.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Late-life depression is one of the most common mental illnesses that cause serious consequences, but the majority do not reach out for mental health services and relapses are common. The present study investigated profiled similarity of older adults' social networks in terms of depressive symptoms. In 2017, we distributed questionnaires inquiring about confidants in the community, depressive symptoms based on the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15), and demographic and functional characteristics to all the community-dwelling older adults under the national insurance system in Wakuya City (Miyagi prefecture, Japan). Applying the Exponential Random Graph Model, we estimated the likelihood of a confidant relational tie by the similarity of overall and specific depressive symptoms within 217,470 potential ties among 660 respondents eligible for analysis. The overall depressive symptom homophily was marginally significant (
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