我国中老年人患慢性病程度与抑郁关系研究

Study on the Relationship between the Degree of Chronic Diseases and Depression in Middle-Aged and Elderly People in China

摘要: 慢性病目前严重威胁我国居民的健康，也为居民带来了沉重的疾病负担，影响了社会的良性发展。抑郁作为威胁居民健康的另一因素同样应该引起足够的重视，本文将二者联系到一起，先单独分析具体哪些背景因素和生活方式等内容会影响患慢性病程度与抑郁程度，之后再将抑郁对患慢性病的影响程度进行分析。通过交叉表分析结果显示居住地址和患慢性病是相关的，与子女见面频率与抑郁是有关联的。对应分析结果表明居住地址为农村的中老年人和城镇相比患有慢性病的程度较低，与子女见面更频繁的人群则倾向于不抑郁或者轻微抑郁。通过有序logistic回归，得出轻微抑郁能够使患病程度至少降一等级的概率是显著抑郁的1.5604倍，说明抑郁程度越低则患慢性病的程度也会越小。

Abstract: At present, chronic diseases not only seriously threaten the health of Chinese residents, but also bring heavy disease burden to residents and affect the benign development of society. Depression, as another factor threatening residents’ health, should also attract enough attention. This paper links the two together, first analyzes which specific background factors and lifestyle will affect the degree of chronic disease and depression, and then analyzes the impact of depression on chronic disease. The results of correlation analysis showed that residential address was related to chronic diseases, and the frequency of meeting with children was related to depression. The results of correspondence analysis showed that the middle-aged and elderly people living in rural areas had a lower degree of chronic diseases than those in cities and towns, and the people who met their children more frequently tended to be non depressed or slightly depressed. Through ordered logistic regression, the probability that mild depression can reduce the degree of illness by at least one grade is 1.5604 times that of significant depression, indicating that the lower the degree of depression, the smaller the degree of chronic disease.