Citation

Shaw SA, El-Bassel N, Gilbert L, Terlikbayeva A, Hunt T, Primbetova S, Rozentalb Y, Chang M. Community Ment. Health J. 2015; 52(8): 1047-1056.

Affiliation

Global Health Research Center of Central Asia, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave, 809, New York, NY, 10027, USA, sas2268@columbia.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-015-9883-3

PMID

25963238

Abstract

This paper examines individual, social, and structural factors associated with depression among 728 people who inject drugs (PWID) and their intimate partners in Kazakhstan, with separate multivariate models by gender. Depression scores were higher on average among participants of both genders who recently experienced sexual intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and who had lower levels of self-rated health. Among females, higher depression scores were associated with experiencing childhood sexual abuse, lower levels of social support, and not having children.

FINDINGS highlight a need to incorporate gender differences and factors associated with depression in designing mental health services for PWID in Kazakhstan.

Language: en