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McKercher, Charlotte, Sanderson, Kristy 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3132-2745, Schmidt, Michael D., Otahal, Petr, Patton, George C., Dwyer, Terence and Venn, Alison J.
(2014)
Physical activity patterns and risk of depression in young adulthood: A 20-year cohort study since childhood.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49 (11).
pp. 1823-1834.
ISSN 0933-7954
Abstract
Purpose: Little is known about how physical activity patterns during childhood and adolescence are associated with risk of subsequent depression. We examined prospective and retrospective associations between leisure physical activity patterns from childhood to adulthood and risk of clinical depression in young adulthood. Methods: Participants (759 males, 871 females) in a national survey, aged 9–15 years, were re-interviewed approximately 20 years later. Leisure physical activity was self-reported at baseline (1985) and follow-up (2004–2006). To bridge the interval between the two time-points, historical leisure activity from age 15 years to adulthood was self-reported retrospectively at follow-up. Physical activity was categorized into groups that, from a public health perspective, compared patterns that were least beneficial (persistently inactive) with those increasingly beneficial (decreasing, increasing and persistently active). Depression (major depressive or dysthymic disorder) was assessed using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. Results: Compared with those persistently inactive, males who were increasingly and persistently active had a 69 and 65 % reduced risk of depression in adulthood, respectively (all p < 0.05). In retrospective analyses, females who were persistently active had a 51 % reduced risk of depression in adulthood (p = 0.01). Similar but non-significant trends were observed for leisure physical activity in females and historical leisure activity in males. Results excluded those with childhood onset of depression and were adjusted for various sociodemographic and health covariates. Conclusions: Findings from both prospective and retrospective analyses indicate a beneficial effect of habitual discretionary physical activity since childhood on risk of depression in young adulthood.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | depression,epidemiology,physical activity,population-based,prospective,epidemiology,health(social science),social psychology,psychiatry and mental health,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2700/2713 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Promotion Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Lifespan Health |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2021 00:29 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2023 03:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80544 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00127-014-0863-7 |
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