Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · Dec 2013
Social support and physical activity as moderators of life stress in predicting baseline depression and change in depression over time in the Women's Health Initiative.
To determine whether social support and/or physical activity buffer the association between stressors and increasing risk of depression symptoms at baseline and at 3-year follow-up. ⋯ Stressors, social support, and physical activity showed predicted main effect associations with depression. Multiplicative interactions were small in magnitude and in the opposite direction of what was expected.
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Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol · Dec 2013
American parents' willingness to prescribe psychoactive drugs to children: a test of cultural mediators.
In the USA, white children receive psychoactive drugs more often than black or Hispanic children. This study investigates whether cultural attitudes statistically mediate differences between American parents' self-identified racial-ethnic group membership and their willingness to medicate children for behavioral problems. ⋯ These findings provide faint support for a parent-centered cultural explanation of reported prescription differences among youths of different racial-ethnic groups in the USA. However, structural and professional components of a broader cultural hypothesis for such differences, within the USA and between different countries, still require evaluation.