Sex differences in depression, anxiety and health-promoting lifestyles among community residents: A network approach

Researchers have studied sex differences in typical depressive and anxiety symptoms and their cooccurrence. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a mental health promotion objective that suggests considering protective health-promoting factors when developing strategies for preventing mental...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of affective disorders 2023-11, Vol.340, p.369-378
Hauptverfasser: Zheng, Ziwei, Zhao, Wenqing, Zhou, Qing, Yang, Yang, Chen, Shuangyi, Hu, Jun, Jiang, Wenhui, Zhang, Weibo, Cai, Jun, Qiu, Jianyin
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Zusammenfassung:Researchers have studied sex differences in typical depressive and anxiety symptoms and their cooccurrence. The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a mental health promotion objective that suggests considering protective health-promoting factors when developing strategies for preventing mental disorders between sexes. From a network perspective, psychopathology is viewed as a result of interacting symptoms and influential factors. This study adopted network approach to investigate sex differences in health-promoting lifestyles (HPL) and the cooccurrence symptoms of communities in Shanghai. The aim is to provide health-promoting suggestions on better enhancing the life quality for community members. Depression, anxiety symptoms, and HPL were assessed with PHQ-9, GAD-7 and HPLP-II scales in 2420 adults (1411 females). Networks were constructed by Gaussian Graphical Models and the networks of two sexes using the Network Comparison Test. Females scored significantly higher on PHQ-9 (p 
ISSN:0165-0327
1573-2517
DOI:10.1016/j.jad.2023.07.107