ArticleFrontiers in public health2025
The improvement path of depression and anxiety among adult women in Shanxi Province, China: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis.
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- Community Nurses as Gender-Responsive Social Prescribing Facilitators for Women's Psychosocial Health and Well-Being in China: A Qualitative Thematic Study.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
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Background: Depression and anxiety (D&A) are currently recognized as complex and prevalent mental disorders that pose major threats to mental health. Women are more susceptible to D&A than men. Methods: We collected data from female participants in Shanxi Province between November 2021 and March 2022 through on-site investigations and an online survey. The survey collected information on sociodemographic traits, lifestyle factors, and physical and mental health. The degree of D&A was evaluated using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10) and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Assessment Scale (GAD-7). We assessed the impact of these factors on D&A symptoms among women using regression and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Results: D&A symptoms had many common influencing factors. Regression analysis identified key protective factors against D&A, including better self-rated health (Depression: OR = 0.11, 95% CI = 0.03-0.47; Anxiety: OR = 0.11, 95% CI = 0.02-0.57) and the absence of recent illness (Depression: OR = 0.56, 95% CI = 0.38-0.83; Anxiety: OR = 0.49, 95% CI = 0.35-0.70). Age exhibited marginal protective effects for both conditions (OR = 0.99, 95% CI = 0.98-1.00). In contrast, occupational stress constituted a significant risk factor, substantially increasing the likelihood of depression (OR = 2.66, 95% CI = 1.43-4.96) and anxiety (OR = 2.99, 95% CI = 1.43-4.96). FsQCA analysis did not identify the conditions for ideal mental health (all consistency < 0.9). However, it did identify eight condition configurations predicting mental health (absence of depression symptoms), each achieving consistency ≥0.87. Additionally, two distinct configurations explained resilience to anxiety (consistency ≥0.80). All configurations met fsQCA's consistency requirements, with self-rated health (present in 10/10 pathways), social support (9/10), and marital status (9/10) playing important roles in most configurations. Conclusion: Women's mental health faces significant challenges, with D&A being closely intertwined. FsQCA did not identify any specific condition for the absence of D&A symptoms. However, it revealed multiple pathways to mental well-being, highlighting the need for personalized, multifactorial interventions rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Regression and fsQCA complement each other, offering unique strengths, and their combined insights should be widely applied to broader research and practice.
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