Effects of Integrated Care Approaches to Address Co-occurring Depression and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Depressive symptoms frequently co-occur with diabetes and, when unaddressed, can function to worsen diabetes control and increase the risk of diabetes-related morbidity. Integrated care (IC) approaches aim to improve outcomes among people with diabetes and depression, but there are no current meta-analyses examining their effects.

Purpose: In our study we summarize the effects of IC approaches to address depression and diabetes and examine moderating effects of IC approaches (e.

Religious Identity Dissonance: Examining the Path of Religious Factors to Depression in Sexual Minority Men in the USA.

Little is known about the religious factors that contribute to religious identity dissonance (ID) for sexual minority men. Our aim was to model the path of religious factors to depression symptoms through ID and internalized stigma (IS). US sexual minority men (N = 168) participated in a survey about religious factors and mental health.

The effects of childhood maltreatment on social support, inflammation, and depressive symptoms in adulthood.

Rationale: Social Safety Theory (SST) suggests that social threats increase inflammation, exacerbating health risks, but that social support may decrease inflammatory signaling. One of the key health problems affected by both social forces and inflammation is major depression.

Objective: The present study sought to test aspects of the SST, to understand how social support and inflammation may mediate the effects of childhood maltreatment on depressive symptoms in adulthood.

Sex differences in childhood maltreatment, inflammation, and adulthood depression: A network analysis.

Background: Efforts to improve treatment for adults with major depression (MD) and childhood maltreatment (CM) have identified inflammation as a potential target to improve health. Network models have emerged as a new way to understand the relationship between depressive symptoms and inflammation. However, none have accounted for the role of childhood maltreatment in the link between depressive symptoms and inflammation, or sex differences commonly found in these constructs.

Allostatic load as a mediator of childhood maltreatment and adulthood depressive symptoms: A longitudinal analysis.

Childhood maltreatment (CM) is associated with several negative outcomes in adulthood, including major depression. People who experience CM that go on to develop symptoms of major depression in adulthood tend to have earlier depressive symptom onset and greater symptom severity than those who do not experience CM. Studies have utilized allostatic load (AL) to understand how CM "gets under the skin" to contribute to depressive symptoms.

Childhood maltreatment and inflammation: Leveraging structural equation modeling to test the social signal transduction theory of depression.

Background: The experience of childhood maltreatment has long been understood to increase the risk for experiencing depressive symptoms and is often associated with an overall worse course of illness when these symptoms are elevated to a major depressive episode. Despite this, current treatments for depression continue to require a need for a greater understanding of the underlying mechanisms.

Method: We utilized structural equation modeling to test the effects of childhood maltreatment on inflammation and depressive symptoms.

Difficulties in psychosocial functioning due to current depressive symptoms: What can C-Reactive protein tell us?

Background: Multiple empirical studies and meta-analyses have examined how inflammation may be associated with various aspects of major depression, with older adults being particularly at risk for the effects of inflammation-related depression. Despite this wide area of research, no study has examined how depression-related inflammation impacts psychosocial functioning.

Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, years 2007-2008, were utilized to examine whether adults over the age of 40 experienced difficulty in their work, taking care of things at home, or getting along with other people due to current depressive symptoms through a logistic regression analysis.

Depressive symptoms, childhood maltreatment, and allostatic load: The importance of sex differences.

Objective: Roughly half the individuals who experience childhood maltreatment also experience depressive symptoms in adulthood; however, many current treatments are ineffective. Allostatic load (AL) offers a method of exploring this relationship through the lens of biometric dysregulation that may explain these increased odds for depressive symptoms in adulthood. We attempted to expand the limited research base on AL, depressive symptoms, and childhood maltreatment by examining how these variables are associated in a U.

Caregiver depression and trajectories of behavioral health among child welfare involved youth.

Child welfare involvement has been linked to child behavioral health issues, including increased likelihood of internalizing mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, and externalizing behavioral problems such as oppositional behaviors and substance use problems. One predictor of child behavioral health is caregiver mental health. Although, there remains a specific gap associated with identification of factors among caregivers that are associated with longitudinal child behavioral health trajectories.

Problem Drinking and Depression in Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Health Conditions.

Objectives: To examine the intersection of depression and alcohol use among older adults with multiple chronic health conditions (MCCs).

Design: Wave 1 data from the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (2005-06).

Setting: Community-based sampling throughout the United States.