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Public Health. 2023 Nov 25;226:58-65. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.10.042. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: There is a lack of causal evidence on the impact of income inequality on depressive symptoms. The impact of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) policy on depressive symptoms is also unclear. Using a quasi-experimental design, this study aims to investigate the causal effects of TPA and income inequality on depressive symptoms among Chinese adults.
STUDY DESIGN: This is a population-based study.
METHODS: Three waves (2012, 2016, and 2018) of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), a nationally representative sample of China, were included in this study. We performed difference-in-difference (DID) models to assess the effect of TPA and income inequality on depressive symptoms. We further conducted the mixed effect models to examine the impact of income inequality on depressive symptoms. The study considered a range of spatial factors and spatial splines to address spatial autocorrelations.
RESULTS: This study included valid measures of depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES-D-8] score) from 14,442 adults of CFPS. The DID results indicated that at the provincial level, the CES-D-8 score of the TPA treatment group was on average 0.570 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.358-0.783) less than the control group. Furthermore, a 0.1 increase in Gini index would lead to a 0.256 (95% CI: 0.064-0.448) increase in CES-D-8 score. The mixed effect model showed that income inequality was a risk factor for depressive symptoms at the provincial level (excess risk = 5.602% [95% CI: 3.047%-8.219%]).
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that income inequality adversely affects mental health, but China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation improves the mental health of the Chinese population.
PMID:38007842 | DOI:10.1016/j.puhe.2023.10.042
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