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Using family history and health risk behaviors to determine predictors of depressive symptoms in C entral A merican immigrant mothers
Author(s) -
Maradiegue Ann H.,
Lyon Debra E.,
Meyers Melanie F.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/nhs.12023
Subject(s) - acculturation , depressive symptoms , depression (economics) , immigration , daughter , clinical psychology , marital status , family history , medicine , patient health questionnaire , psychology , psychiatry , gerontology , demography , anxiety , population , environmental health , evolutionary biology , biology , sociology , economics , history , archaeology , macroeconomics
In this study, depressive symptomatology in C entral A merican immigrant mothers with adolescent daughters living in the USA was explored. Using the C enter for E pidemiologic S tudies D epression S hort S cale, the F amily H istory S cale, an A cculturation S cale, and the core section of the Y outh C onduct D isorder scale from the N ational H ealth and N utrition E xamination S urvey, 101 C entral A merican mothers were analyzed to identify predictors of depressive symptoms. Over one‐third of the participants had depressive symptoms. There were no significant findings for acculturation as a predictor of depressive symptoms. Predictors that related to depressive symptomatology were a positive family history of depression, marital status (divorced), and having a daughter engaged in health risk behaviors. Clinicians working with mothers from C entral A merica should consider risk of depression, whether there is a family history of depression; and additional stresses, such as the health risk behaviors of adolescents. Unprecedented levels of immigration around the world underscore the importance of meeting the healthcare needs of culturally‐diverse groups.