Tuyển tập các nghiên cứu khoa học của trường đại học Huế đề tài: Mối liên hệ giữa tình trạng kinh tế xã hội và trầm cảm ở người việt Nam: thí điểm nghiên cứu. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE Hue University N0 61 2010 THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND DEPRESSION IN VIETNAMESE ADULTS PILOT STUDY Vuong Diem Khanh Doan Vo Van Thang College of Medicine and Pharmacy Hue University Gavin Turrell Michael Dunne Queensland University of Technology SUMMARY This study examined the prevalence of depressive symptoms and elucidated the causal pathway between socioeconomic status and depression in a community in the central region of Vietnam. The study used a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods. Indepth interviews were applied with two local psychiatric experts and ten residents for qualitative research. A cross sectional survey with structured interview technique was implemented with 100 residents in the pilot quantitative survey. The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale CES-D was applied to evaluate depressive symptoms CES-D score over 21 and depression CESD score over 25 . Ordinary Least Squares Regression following the three steps of Baron and Kenny s framework was employed for testing mediation models. There was a strong social gradient with respect to depressive symptoms. People with higher education levels reported fewer depressive symptoms lower CES-D scores . Incomes were also inversely associated with depressive symptoms but only the ones at the bottom of the quartile income. Low level and unstable individuals in terms of occupation were associated with higher depressive symptoms compared with the highest occupation group. Employment status showed the strongest gradient with respect to its impact on the burden of depressive symptoms compared with other indicators of SES. Findings from this pilot study suggest a pattern on the negative association between socioeconomic status and depression in Vietnamese adults. 1. Introduction International research concerning the association between depression and socioeconomic status SES has revealed a consistent pattern of an inverse relationships .
