| ObjectiveDepression is one of the affective disorders with significant and lasting low mood as the main symptoms.Its causes include environmental,biological,social psychological and many other factors.Depressive symptoms include depression,social withdrawal,stray,body discomfort,loss of appetite,and sleep disorders.Severe cases might have suicidal thoughts or behavior.WHO(World Health Organization)has considerd depression as one of the main diseases since the 21 st century,which threat human health of body and mind.Depressive symptoms affected personal psychosomatic health and social development seriously.As the capital of Henan Province and political economic center of central China,Zhengzhou is lack of the basic epidemiology information of depression.To provide data supporting for diagnosis and treatment of depression,this paper has developed the urban employees' depressive symptoms prevalence and analyzed the influence factors.MethodsThis researchused the phase random cluster sampling method.12 communities in erqi district of Zhengzhou were selected randomly.All of the urban employees were investigated.The survey time was from August 2015 to April 2016.The questionnaire was formed by demographic data questionnaire and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies' Scale(CES-D).Investigators had been trained uniformly about guidance method and questionnaire method before the survey.A preliminary investigation was carried out and the questionnaires were regained on the scene.Then database was established with the software Epidata 3.1 and the data was inputed by two different persons in the same time.The data was collected by Excel and analyzed by SPSS19.1.Statistical methods have been used include descriptive statistics,chi-square test,Kruskal-Wallis Test and Logistic regression analysis,etc.The level of test a=0.05.Results1?The urban employees' depressive symptoms prevalence in Erqi District of Zhengzhou was 35.83%.2 ? There was significant correlation between urban employees' depressive symptoms and favtors such as age,marital status,living situation,income,educational level,occupation,drinking,physical exercise,chronic diseases,family violence etc.But it had no significant correlation between depressive symptoms and the gender,smoking,the recent physical discomfort,religious beliefs.The results showed that the urban employees who was 46 to 55 years old,divorced,changed residence often,had high income,had chronic diseases,had family violence have a higher risk of depressive symptoms.And the urban employees who was under 25 years old,married,living together with family,had low income,not drinking,had physical exercise regularly have a lower risk of depressive symptoms.3?Multivariate analysis showed that,the numerical probability of depressive symtoms=0.013×gender+0.009×age+0.023×marital status-0.139×living situation +0.123×educational level+0.085×income+0.031×profession-0.074×smoking+0.227×drinking+ 0.220×physical exercise+ 0.039×recent discomfort +0.177×chronic di seases-0.039×religious beliefs +1.554×domestic violence.Living situation,alcoh ol degree,and domestic violence associated significantly with depressive sympt oms(P<0.05).Conclusions1?The urban employees' depressive symptoms prevalence in Erqi District of Zhengzhou was 35.83%..2?Factors that influenced urban employees' depressive symptoms prevalence status were age,marital status,living situation,monthly income,educational level,occupation,drinking,physical exercise,chronic diseases,family violence and others.3?The urban employees who living together with family,no drinking,no family violence have a lower risk potentially of depressive symptoms. |
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