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Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan
There is growing interest in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), poverty, and mental health in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, it is not clear whether a gradient approach focused on a wider SES distribution or a binary poverty approach is more salient for mental hea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.10.004 |
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author | Maselko, Joanna Bates, Lisa Bhalotra, Sonia Gallis, John A. O’Donnell, Karen Sikander, Siham Turner, Elizabeth L. |
author_facet | Maselko, Joanna Bates, Lisa Bhalotra, Sonia Gallis, John A. O’Donnell, Karen Sikander, Siham Turner, Elizabeth L. |
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description | There is growing interest in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), poverty, and mental health in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, it is not clear whether a gradient approach focused on a wider SES distribution or a binary poverty approach is more salient for mental health in LMIC. Yet this distinction has implications for interventions aimed at improving population health. We contribute to the literature by examining how multiple indicators of socioeconomic status, including gradient SES and binary poverty indicators, contribute to prenatal depression symptoms in a LMIC context. Prenatal depression is an important public health concern with negative sequela for the mother and her children. We use data on assets, education, food insecurity, debt, and depression symptoms from a sample of 1154 pregnant women residing in rural Pakistan. Women who screened positive for depression participated in a cluster randomized controlled trial of a perinatal depression intervention; all women were interviewed October 2015-February 2016, prior to the start of the intervention. Cluster-specific sampling weights were used to approximate a random sample of pregnant women in the area. Findings indicate that fewer assets, experiencing food insecurity, and having household debt are independently associated with worse depression symptoms. The association with assets is linear with no evidence of a threshold effect, supporting the idea of a gradient in the association between levels of SES and depression symptoms. A gradient was also initially observed with woman’s educational attainment, but this association was attenuated once other SES variables were included in the model. Together, the asset, food insecurity, and debt indicators explain 14% of the variance in depression symptoms, more than has been reported in high income country studies. These findings support the use of multiple SES indicators to better elucidate the complex relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health in LMIC. |
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spelling | pubmed-57690912018-01-18 Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan Maselko, Joanna Bates, Lisa Bhalotra, Sonia Gallis, John A. O’Donnell, Karen Sikander, Siham Turner, Elizabeth L. SSM Popul Health Article There is growing interest in the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), poverty, and mental health in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, it is not clear whether a gradient approach focused on a wider SES distribution or a binary poverty approach is more salient for mental health in LMIC. Yet this distinction has implications for interventions aimed at improving population health. We contribute to the literature by examining how multiple indicators of socioeconomic status, including gradient SES and binary poverty indicators, contribute to prenatal depression symptoms in a LMIC context. Prenatal depression is an important public health concern with negative sequela for the mother and her children. We use data on assets, education, food insecurity, debt, and depression symptoms from a sample of 1154 pregnant women residing in rural Pakistan. Women who screened positive for depression participated in a cluster randomized controlled trial of a perinatal depression intervention; all women were interviewed October 2015-February 2016, prior to the start of the intervention. Cluster-specific sampling weights were used to approximate a random sample of pregnant women in the area. Findings indicate that fewer assets, experiencing food insecurity, and having household debt are independently associated with worse depression symptoms. The association with assets is linear with no evidence of a threshold effect, supporting the idea of a gradient in the association between levels of SES and depression symptoms. A gradient was also initially observed with woman’s educational attainment, but this association was attenuated once other SES variables were included in the model. Together, the asset, food insecurity, and debt indicators explain 14% of the variance in depression symptoms, more than has been reported in high income country studies. These findings support the use of multiple SES indicators to better elucidate the complex relationship between socioeconomic status and mental health in LMIC. Elsevier 2017-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5769091/ /pubmed/29349268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.10.004 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Maselko, Joanna Bates, Lisa Bhalotra, Sonia Gallis, John A. O’Donnell, Karen Sikander, Siham Turner, Elizabeth L. Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title | Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title_full | Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title_fullStr | Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title_short | Socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: Evidence from a study of prenatal depression in Pakistan |
title_sort | socioeconomic status indicators and common mental disorders: evidence from a study of prenatal depression in pakistan |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5769091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29349268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.10.004 |
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