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Prevalence of depressive symptoms (percentage) by country and caregiving status

Prevalence of depressive symptoms (percentage) by country and caregiving status

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Background A common hypothesis is that caregiving is deleterious to women’s mental health. International studies continue to emphasize the importance of mental health issues for women. Yet only a few researchers have used population-based surveys to explore the association between caregiving and depressive symptomatology in the context of the commu...

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... shown in Table 4, we have observed that caregiv- ing has a negative effect in countries with lower rates of female labor force participation and higher adolescent fertility such as Mexico, Belgium, Spain, and Greece; this underscores caregiving as a deleterious factor in countries with a lower women's status. In addition, caregiving was also found to be harmful in Germany and the UK, where the labor force participation rate and adolescent fertility rate are both higher. ...

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