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Pain and symptoms of depression in older adults living in community and in nursing homes: the role of activity restriction as a potential mediator and moderator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2014

Almudena López-Lopez ,
José L. González ,
Miriam Alonso-Fernández ,
Noelia Cuidad  and
Borja Matías
Almudena López-Lopez*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
José L. González
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
Miriam Alonso-Fernández
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
Noelia Cuidad
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
Borja Matías
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Rey Juan Carlos University, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Almudena López-Lopez, Associate Professor, Departamento de Psicología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Avda. Atenas s/n, 28922 Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34 914889021; Fax: +43 914888957. Email: almudena.lopez@urjc.es.
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Abstract

Background:

Chronic pain is likely to lead to depressive symptoms, but the nature of this relationship is not completely clear. The aim of the present study is to analyze the role of activity restriction in the pain-depression relationship in older people, and to test the hypothesis that this role is more relevant in community-dwelling older people than in nursing home residents.

Method:

Depressive symptoms, pain intensity, and activity restriction were measured in a sample of 208 older adults with osteoarthritis, 102 living in nursing homes (NH), and 106 in the community. Analyses were carried out using moderation and moderated mediation analyses approach, treating activity restriction as a confounder.

Results:

Results showed a significant confounding effect of activity restriction, interaction effect between pain intensity and activity restriction on depression, and modifying effect of pain intensity on depression by adding activity restriction into the model. These results suggest a potential mediating and moderating effects of activity restriction. Moreover, analyses suggest that, surprisingly, the strength of the mediation could be higher in nursing homes.

Conclusions:

Overall, it may be that what is really important to emotional well-being is not so much pain itself, but rather the way in which the pain alters older people's lives. The greater strength of the mediation in NH might be understood within the scope of self-determination theory. Generally speaking, the NH context has been considered as a coercive setting, promoting non-autonomous orientation. In this context, when events are objectively coercive, people may lack perceived autonomy and hence be at greater risk of depression.

Keywords

elderlychronic painosteoarthritisdepressionactivity restrictionautonomy
Type
Research Article
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 26 , Issue 10 , October 2014 , pp. 1679 - 1691
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Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2014 

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