Authors
Arjan W Braam, Pieter van den Eeden, Martin J Prince, Aartjan TF Beekman, S-L Kivelä, Brian A Lawlor, Andreas Birkhofer, Rebecca Fuhrer, Anthony Lobo, Hallgrimur Magnusson, Anthony H Mann, Ingeborg Meller, Marc Roelands, Ingmar Skoog, Cesare Turrina, John RM Copeland
Publication date
2001/7
Journal
Psychological medicine
Volume
31
Issue
5
Pages
803-814
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Description
Background
The protective effects of religion against late life depression may depend on the broader sociocultural environment. This paper examines whether the prevailing religious climate is related to cross-cultural differences of depression in elderly Europeans.
Methods
Two approaches were employed, using data from the EURODEP collaboration. First, associations were studied between church-attendance, religious denomination and depression at the syndrome level for six EURODEP study centres (five countries, N = 8398). Secondly, ecological associations were computed by multi-level analysis between national estimates of religious climate, derived from the European Value Survey and depressive symptoms, for the pooled dataset of 13 EURODEP study centres (11 countries, N = 17739).
Results
In the first study, depression rates were lower among regular church-attenders, most prominently among …
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