Titre :
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Is neighborhood racial/ethnic composition associated with depressive symptoms ? The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. (2010)
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Auteurs :
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Christina MAIR ;
Ana-V DIEZ ROUX ;
Theresa-L OSYPUK ;
Stephen-R RAPP ;
Teresa SEEMAN ;
Karol-E WATSON
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 71, n° 3, 2010)
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Pagination :
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541-550
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Etat dépressif
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Artériosclérose
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Race
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Ethnie
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Association
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Psychopathologie
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Densité population
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Homme
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Amérique
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xFqHCp. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. The racial/ethnic composition of a neighborhood may be related to residents'depressive symptoms through differential levels of neighborhood social support and/or stressors. We used the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis to investigate cross-sectional associations of neighborhood racial/ethnic composition with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) scale in adults aged 45-84. The key exposure was a census-derived measure of the percentage of residents of the same racial/ethnic background in each participant's census tract. Two-level multilevel models were used to estimate associations of neighborhood racial/ethnic composition with CES-D scores after controlling for age, income, marital status, education and nativity. We found that living in a neighborhood with a higher percentage of residents of the same race/ethnicity was associated with increased CES-D scores in African American men (p
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