- Title
- Depression and risk of unintentional injury in rural communities- a longitudinal analysis of the Australian rural mental health study
- Creator
- Inder, Kerry J.; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Handley, Tonelle E.; Fragar, Lyn J.; Lower, Tony; Booth, Angela; Lewin, Terry J.; Kelly, Brian H.
- Relation
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol. 14, Issue 9, no. 1080
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14091080
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Limited longitudinal research has examined relationships between depression and injury, particularly in rural contexts. This paper reports cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses from the Australian Rural Mental Health Study (ARMHS) exploring relationships between “probable depression” episodes and unintentional injury. Participants completed four surveys over five years. Multivariate logistic regressions were employed to assess the causal effect of prior depression episodes on subsequent injury risk. Of 2621 baseline participants, 23.3% experienced a probable depression episode recently and 15.9% reported a serious injury during the previous 12 months. Factors associated with a 12-month injury at baseline included male gender, being unemployed or unable to work, being involved in a serious incident, hazardous alcohol use, and having experienced a recent depression episode. Longitudinal analyses revealed that probable depression was significantly associated with subsequent unintentional injury (OR 1.68, 99%CI 1.20–2.35), as was male gender (OR 1.39, 99%CI 1.06–1.82), while alcohol consumption did not mediate these relationships. Campaigns to reduce the impact of mental illness should consider unintentional injuries as a contributor, while injury prevention initiatives may benefit from addressing mental health issues. Such strategies are particularly important in rural and remote areas where injuries are more common and mental health services are less readily available.
- Subject
- injury; depression; affective disorder; rural mental health; risk factors; longitudinal analysis
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1348530
- Identifier
- uon:30219
- Identifier
- ISSN:1661-7827
- Rights
- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. (CC BY 4.0).
- Language
- eng
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