1. Stress, Depression, and Drug Use Among Aging Mexican American Men Living in the Barrio.
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Villarreal, Yolanda R., Torres, Luis R., Stotts, Angela, Ren, Yi, Sampson, McClain, and Bordnick, Patrick S.
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CHI-squared test , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *STATISTICAL correlation , *MENTAL depression , *PSYCHOLOGY of Hispanic Americans , *INTERVIEWING , *PROBABILITY theory , *PSYCHOLOGICAL tests , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RESEARCH funding , *PSYCHOLOGICAL stress , *T-test (Statistics) , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *CROSS-sectional method , *PSYCHOLOGY of drug abusers , *DATA analysis software , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *ODDS ratio - Abstract
Residing in Mexican Americanbarriosmight place individuals at heightened risk for chronic financial and acute stress, which are associated with adverse mental health outcomes. Stressors could be exacerbated for substance users. This research explores relations between chronic financial stress, acute stress, and depressive symptomatology among aging Mexican American heroin and other drug-using men. A prospective cohort study and field-intensive outreach methodology were used to recruit 227 men for in-depth interviews. Participants were categorized into depressed and nondepressed groups based on symptomatology measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Chronic financial stress (i.e., poverty) and acute stress (i.e., Life Events Questionnaire) associated with depressive symptomatology were tested using logistic regression. Findings suggest scores of depressive symptoms among substance users are highly related to chronic financial stress. Community-level interventions targeting chronic stressors present in the barrio could be especially salient in improving the mental health of Latino drug users. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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