@article{ref1,
title="Depressive symptoms were prevalent among left-behind women in Ma'anshan, China",
journal="Journal of nervous and mental disease",
year="2015",
author="Jin, Yu and Qin, Qirong and Zhan, Shengwei and Yu, Xiaodong and Liang, Ling and Huang, Fen",
volume="204",
number="3",
pages="226-232",
abstract="The present study was aimed at exploring the prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptoms among left-behind women in China. A sample of 938 participants (439 left-behind women and 499 non-left-behind women) was surveyed with self-rating questionnaire. The scores of depressive symptoms were higher in the left-behind women; and the overall prevalence of depressive symptoms was 34.54% for all participants and 46.69% for the left-behind women (mild, 40.77%; moderate/major, 5.92%). The status of left-behind is an independent risk factor of depressive symptoms in rural women. The multinomial logistic regression in the left-behind women indicated age, religious belief, annual individual income, impulsiveness, and active coping were associated with mild depressive symptoms; whereas age, religious belief, domestic violence, and active coping were associated with moderate/major depressive symptoms. <br><br>RESULTS suggest that depressive symptoms were prevalent among the left-behind women. The findings should be considered for the psychological intervention in the left-behind women.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3018",
doi="10.1097/NMD.0000000000000444",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000444"
}