Psychosocial correlates of overweight or obese status in Latino adults with coronary artery disease. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • This study evaluated the psychosocial correlates of being overweight or obese among US born and immigrant Latino adults. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D10). Of the 177 participants, 64% were either overweight or obese, of which, 51% also had comorbid depressive symptoms. On bivariate analyses, these participants were younger (OR = 2.4, 95% CI = 1.5-5.2), female (OR = 2.5, 95% CI = 1.3-4.6), US born (OR = 6, 95% CI = 1.3-9.0), more likely to have lived in the US 15 or more years (OR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.3-5.1), reported fair or poor health, (OR = 3.8, 95% CI = 1.8-8.0), and were more likely to perceive greater stress (OR = 7.8, 95% CI = 3.4-18.0). On multivariate analysis, only perceived stress remained significant (OR = 6.5, 95% CI = 2.7-15.6). This suggests that interventions designed to reduce the epidemic of overweight and obesity in Latino adults may also need to address their psychosocial health.

publication date

  • July 9, 2008

Research

keywords

  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Hispanic or Latino
  • Obesity
  • Stress, Psychological

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 70349326745

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1007/s10903-008-9167-x

PubMed ID

  • 18612825

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 11

issue

  • 5