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NIMHD co-funded study analyzed the impact of unhealthy behaviors on the relationship between chronic stress and depression among individuals of Hispanic/Latino heritages.
In a recently published study, researchers evaluated whether unhealthy behaviors weakened the relationship between allostatic load (a measure of chronic stress), and future elevated depressive symptoms among Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos participants.
The paper, titled “Allostatic load, unhealthy behaviors, and depressive symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos,” was published in Elsevier.
The study examined a theoretical framework, the Environmental Affordances Model, which attempts to explain how unhealthy behaviors and chronic stress from inequalities in social, economic, and environmental opportunities impact health among racial/ethnic minorities. Given differences by Hispanic/Latino heritage in evaluations of the Environmental Affordances Model, researchers sought to test whether the Model is relevant across individual Hispanic/Latino heritages in explaining differences in chronic stress and depressive symptoms.
This study was led by the Division of Intramural Research of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and co-funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.
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