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. 1987 Sep;77(9):1215–1218. doi: 10.2105/ajph.77.9.1215

Depressive symptomatology in northern Mexico adults.

W A Vega, B Kolody, R L Hough, G Figueroa
PMCID: PMC1647022  PMID: 3618858

Abstract

A cross-sectional field survey of 991 people in Tijuana, Mexico, a border city experiencing unbridled population growth, was designed to measure levels of depressive symptoms and identify correlates using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression measure (CES-D). Bivariate and multivariate analyses of the data indicate that similar variables are highly associated with depressive symptoms in the US and Mexico: low socioeconomic status, female gender, disrupted marital status, unemployment, and poor health. Risk-for-caseness is 19.1 per cent for males and 33.0 per cent for females.

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