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Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study
Given that public transportation networks are often worse in rural areas than in urban areas, it is difficult for elderly non-drivers to access health-promoting goods, services, and resources related to mental health. Moreover, geographical location, assessed by elevation, could modify this associat...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27455292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13070738 |
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author | Hamano, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Miwako Sundquist, Kristina Nabika, Toru |
author_facet | Hamano, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Miwako Sundquist, Kristina Nabika, Toru |
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description | Given that public transportation networks are often worse in rural areas than in urban areas, it is difficult for elderly non-drivers to access health-promoting goods, services, and resources related to mental health. Moreover, geographical location, assessed by elevation, could modify this association in a rural area. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between car driving (being a driver or not) and depression, as measured by the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), varied by elevation. Data were collected from a cross-sectional study conducted in the town of Ohnan located in a rural area of Japan. After excluding participants with missing data (n = 26), 876 participants were analysed in this study. After adjustment for potential confounders, being a non-driver had a significantly higher odds ratio of SDS (40+) among elderly people living at a low elevation (odds ratio = 2.17, 95% confidence interval = 1.28–3.71). However, similar findings were not observed among elderly people living at a high elevation. These results suggest that car driving importantly predicts depression in elderly people living at relatively low elevations in rural areas. |
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spelling | pubmed-49622792016-08-01 Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study Hamano, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Miwako Sundquist, Kristina Nabika, Toru Int J Environ Res Public Health Communication Given that public transportation networks are often worse in rural areas than in urban areas, it is difficult for elderly non-drivers to access health-promoting goods, services, and resources related to mental health. Moreover, geographical location, assessed by elevation, could modify this association in a rural area. The aim of this study was to test whether the association between car driving (being a driver or not) and depression, as measured by the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), varied by elevation. Data were collected from a cross-sectional study conducted in the town of Ohnan located in a rural area of Japan. After excluding participants with missing data (n = 26), 876 participants were analysed in this study. After adjustment for potential confounders, being a non-driver had a significantly higher odds ratio of SDS (40+) among elderly people living at a low elevation (odds ratio = 2.17, 95% confidence interval = 1.28–3.71). However, similar findings were not observed among elderly people living at a high elevation. These results suggest that car driving importantly predicts depression in elderly people living at relatively low elevations in rural areas. MDPI 2016-07-21 2016-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4962279/ /pubmed/27455292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13070738 Text en © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Hamano, Tsuyoshi Takeda, Miwako Sundquist, Kristina Nabika, Toru Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title | Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title_full | Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title_fullStr | Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title_short | Geographic Elevation, Car Driving, and Depression among Elderly Residents in Rural Areas: The Shimane CoHRE Study |
title_sort | geographic elevation, car driving, and depression among elderly residents in rural areas: the shimane cohre study |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4962279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27455292 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph13070738 |
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