Carrying the Burdens of Poverty, Parenting, and Addiction: Depression Symptoms and Self-Silencing Among Ethnically Diverse Women

Autor: Dana Crowley Jack, Cara C. Ernst, Therese Grant, Annette L. Fitzpatrick
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Community Mental Health Journal. 47:90-98
ISSN: 1573-2789
0010-3853
DOI: 10.1007/s10597-009-9255-y
Popis: Depression among women commonly co-occurs with substance abuse. We explore the association between women's depressive symptoms and self-silencing accounting for the effects of known childhood and adult risk indicators. Participants are 233 ethnically diverse, low-income women who abused alcohol/drugs prenatally. Depressive symptomatology was assessed using the Addiction Severity Index. Multivariate logistic regression models examined the association between self-silencing and the dependent depression variable. The full model indicated a 3% increased risk for depressive distress for each point increase in self-silencing score (OR = 1.03; P = .001). Differences in depressive symptomatology by ethnic groups were accounted for by their differences in self-silencing.
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