Patrícia Silva Tofani, Roberta de Oliveira Máximo, Natália Cochar-Soares, Paula Camila Ramírez, Mariane Marques Luiz, Sara Souza Lima, Thaís Barros Pereira da Silva, Thales Batista de Souza, Letícia Coelho Silveira, Valdete Regina Guandalini, Andrew Steptoe, Cesar de Oliveira, Tiago da Silva Alexandre
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Abstract
Objectives: Investigate whether the coexistence of pain and depressive symptoms is a risk factor for cognitive decline in individuals aged 50 or older.
Method: Longitudinal trajectory study involving 4,718 participants from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Joint pain was self-reported, and intensity was classified as mild, moderate/intense. Depressive symptoms were investigated using the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D-8 ≥ 4). The sample was divided into six groups: no pain and no depression (NP/NDe), mild pain and no depression (MP/NDe), moderate/intense pain and no depression (M-IP/NDe), no pain and depression (NP/De), mild pain and depression (MP/De), and moderate/intense pain and depression (M-IP/De). The outcome of interest was performance in memory, executive function, and global cognition. Generalised linear mixed models were used to analyse performance in the cognitive domains and global cognition score as a function of pain and depressive symptoms during 12 years of follow-up.
Results: Over time, individuals with M-IP/De had a greater memory decline (-0.038 SD/year, 95%CI: -0.068 to -0.007) and the global cognition score (-0.033 SD/year, 95%CI: -0.063 to -0.002) than those with NP/NDe.
Conclusion: The coexistence of moderate/intense pain and depressive symptoms is a risk factor for the decline of global cognition and memory.
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Aging & Mental Health provides a leading international forum for the rapidly expanding field which investigates the relationship between the aging process and mental health. The journal addresses the mental changes associated with normal and abnormal or pathological aging, as well as the psychological and psychiatric problems of the aging population. The journal also has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary and innovative approaches that explore new topics and methods.
Aging & Mental Health covers the biological, psychological and social aspects of aging as they relate to mental health. In particular it encourages an integrated approach for examining various biopsychosocial processes and etiological factors associated with psychological changes in the elderly. It also emphasizes the various strategies, therapies and services which may be directed at improving the mental health of the elderly and their families. In this way the journal promotes a strong alliance among the theoretical, experimental and applied sciences across a range of issues affecting mental health and aging. The emphasis of the journal is on rigorous quantitative, and qualitative, research and, high quality innovative studies on emerging topics.