The effect of socioeconomic factors on health-related quality of life among adults with depressive disorder in the USA

Autor: Farhah, Nesren, Srinivasan, Shankar, Mital, Dinesh, Coffman, Frederick D.
Zdroj: International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics; 2022, Vol. 14 Issue: 3 p229-239, 11p
Abstrakt: Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) a study was conducted to determine the effect of socioeconomic factors of education level, marital status, employment status, and income level on the HRQOL outcomes of activity limitation, physical health, and mental health among adults with depressive disorder in the USA. A greater number of adults with high income level, high education level and married were depression freecompared to those with low incomes (39.17% vs. 6.49%), low education level (30.46% vs. 5.8%), and being single (45.35% vs. 8.35%). Also, those with depressive disorder suffered greater physical health problems (11.02% vs. 7.93%) and mental health problems (12.58% vs. 6.26%).
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