The prevalence of depressive symptoms among Mexican Americans and Anglos.
The prevalence of depressive symptoms among Mexican Americans and Anglos.
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墨西哥裔美国人和盎格鲁人中抑郁症状的患病率。
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发表时间：
1984
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5
通讯作者：
Kenneth Meinhardt
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作者：
William A. Vega;G. Warheit;Joanne Burl;Kenneth Meinhardt
这项研究报告了流行病学现场调查数据的分布，抑郁症状之间的盎格鲁人（n = 637）和两个墨西哥裔美国人的子样本（n = 551）生活在圣克拉拉县，加州。其中一个墨西哥裔美国人子样本用英语（n = 330）和西班牙语（n = 221）进行了采访。方差分析表明，那些低教育成就，女性，那些在破裂的婚姻状况，和那些在30岁以下的抑郁症状的水平显着高于他们的同行。盎格鲁和墨西哥裔美国人的抑郁症状的患病率是非常相似的，远低于西班牙语的墨西哥裔美国人的子样本报告。教育水平的差异似乎是解释了英语和西班牙语的子样本之间的抑郁症状的许多变化。作者认为，缺乏语言技能沿着低教育成就可能表明相对缺乏文化适应和社会融合，这反过来可能是讲西班牙语的子样本中症状增加的原因。多元逐步回归分析的结果表明，年龄，性别，婚姻状况和教育程度解释相对较低的总方差和波动量。这些分析还表明，社会和人口统计学因素与每个子样本的抑郁症状有差异。变量教育，女性，和分离是显着的，在所有的方程，但他们的入口顺序和由他们解释的方差量不同。
The study reports epidemiologic field survey data on the distribution of depressive symptoms among Anglos (n = 637) and two Mexican-American subsamples (n = 551) living in Santa Clara County, California. One of the Mexican-American subsamples was interviewed in English (n = 330) and the other in Spanish (n = 221). Analysis of variance indicated that those with low educational achievement, females, those in disrupted marital statuses, and those under 30 years of age had significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms than their counterparts. The prevalence of depressive symptoms for the Anglo and Mexican-American English-speaking samples was very similar and much lower than that reported by the Spanish-speaking Mexican-American subsample. Differences in educational levels appear to be accounting for many of the variations in depressive symptoms between the Anglo and English-speaking subsamples and the Spanish-speaking one. The authors suggest that the lack of language skills along with low educational achievement may be indicating a relative lack of acculturation and societal integration which in turn may be accounting for some of the increased symptoms among the Spanish-speaking subsample. The results of multiple stepwise regression analyses indicate that age, sex, marital status, and educational attainment explain relatively low and fluctuating amounts of the total variance. These analyses also indicate that social and demographic factors are differentially related to depressive symptoms for each of the subsamples. The variables education, female, and separated were significant in all of the equations, but their order of entrance and the amount of variance explained by them varied.