Title: The effect of socioeconomic factors on health-related quality of life among adults with depressive disorder in the USA

Authors: Nesren Farhah; Shankar Srinivasan; Dinesh Mital; Frederick D. Coffman

Addresses: Department of Health Informatics, School of Health Science, Saudi Electronic University, Jeddah, KSA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers – School of Health Professions, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers – School of Health Professions, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA ' Department of Health Informatics, Rutgers – School of Health Professions, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA

Abstract: Using data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) a study was conducted to determine the effect of socioeconomic factors of education level, marital status, employment status, and income level on the HRQOL outcomes of activity limitation, physical health, and mental health among adults with depressive disorder in the USA. A greater number of adults with high income level, high education level and married were depression free compared to those with low incomes (39.17% vs. 6.49%), low education level (30.46% vs. 5.8%), and being single (45.35% vs. 8.35%). Also, those with depressive disorder suffered greater physical health problems (11.02% vs. 7.93%) and mental health problems (12.58% vs. 6.26%).

Keywords: depressive disorder; socioeconomic factors; health related quality of life; HRQoL; mental health; physical health; activity limitation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMEI.2022.122282

International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics, 2022 Vol.14 No.3, pp.229 - 239

Received: 25 Jan 2020
Accepted: 02 May 2020
Published online: 19 Apr 2022 *

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