Effects of Offspring-Related Characteristics on Depressive Disorder among Cancer Patients and Survivors

• DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.11.4531
• Publication Date: 2015-12-04T06:43:36Z
• Authors: Jae-Hyun Kim; Eun-Cheol Park; Hyungseon Yeom; Jeoung A Kwon; Sang Gyu Lee
• Keywords: Depressive Disorder/epidemiology*; Male; 610; Survivors/psychology*; Neoplasms/psychology*; Offspring; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; depressive disorder; Neoplasms; Loneliness/psychology*; Prevalence; cancer; Humans; Longitudinal Studies; Survivors; Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology*; Quality of Life*; Aged; Depressive Disorder; Family Characteristics; Korea; Loneliness; Anxiety Disorders/psychology; Social Support; Middle Aged; Prognosis; Anxiety Disorders; 3. Good health; Survival Rate; Family Characteristics*; Quality of Life; Female; Depressive Disorder/psychology; Follow-Up Studies

To investigate the influence of offspring-related characteristics on prevalence depressive disorders among cancer patients and those who survived for at least 45 years.Data were obtained from Korean Longitudinal Study Aging (KLoSA). association between offspring disorder survivors, we analyzed data 292 survivors drawn a total subject pool 16,613 individuals baseline.According to our results, odds ratio (OR) subjects with five or more developing was -0.794 (p-value: 0.039, SE: 0.329) compared that two offspring. In addition, adjusted effect number male female presence showed OR three -0.958 lower (SE: 0.305, p-value: 0.012) than it no offspring.This article provides evidence an survivors. Therefore, may be important contributors emotional status Further study should precisely need measure because self-reported data.