| Application: | 41686, Understanding the biological, lifestyle and environmental risks and outcomes for multimorbidity in psychiatric disorders |
| Title: | Depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and participation in breast and cervical cancer screening: Cross-sectional and prospective evidence from UK Biobank |
| Size: | 1.3 MB |
| Archived: | 29 Oct 2020 |
| Stability: | Complete |
| Personal: | No individual-level data |
Return 2635
WARNING: the interactive features of this website use CSS3, which your browser does not support. To use the full features of this website, please update your browser.
Notes
We assessed associations between depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and participation in breast and cervical screening using UK Biobank. Women in the UK Biobank cohort who were eligible for breast cancer screening (aged 50-70 years) and/or cervical screening (<65 years) at baseline recruitment (2006-2010) and those with follow-up data (2014-2019) were identified. More severe depressive symptoms were associated with reduced likelihood of breast and cervical screening participation, in cross-sectional analyses. Higher neuroticism scores were associated with reduced cervical screening participation, but the opposite was found for breast cancer screening. Examination of individual neuroticism items revealed that anxiety and worry were associated with increased breast screening. At follow-up, higher baseline depressive symptoms were related to decreased cervical screening, but not with breast screening. More severe depressive symptoms may be a barrier for breast and cervical screening and could be an indicator for more proactive strategies to improve uptake.Application 41686
Understanding the biological, lifestyle and environmental risks and outcomes for multimorbidity in psychiatric disorders
People with mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety have a higher chance of getting a physical health condition such as heart disease. This is a significant health inequality and contributes to the shortened life expectancy among people with mental health disorders. The aim of this research project is to add to our understanding of the things that increase people's chance of developing different health conditions (e.g. dementia and cancer) if they have experienced a mental health disorder. The research will use novel techniques derived from computer science (e.g. machine learning) to uncover whether they can help us better understand why people develop multimorbidity (two or more health conditions experienced by one person) and what health conditions increase the chances of being hospitalised and dying. Multimorbidity is a growing public health concern and places significant pressure on the health service. Better understanding of multimorbidity is required to enable us to better prevent the development of multiple health conditions and also develop more effective treatments. The research will make use of methods from different academic disciplines. Machine learning is a set of tools that can use the vast amounts of information now available to researchers to learn from patterns in the data and help us predict who might develop multimorbidity and what might happen to them afterwards. The application of machine learning to better understand public health and, in particular, multimorbidity is novel and has the potential to identify new factors that heighten people's risk of developing certain health conditions. We will then investigate whether or not these factors are a potential true cause of particular illnesses. The research will take place over the course of the next three years and will make a significant contribution to our understanding of multimorbidity which can lead to the development of new treatments and prevention efforts.
| Lead investigator: | Dr Claire Niedzwiedz |
| Lead institution: | University of Glasgow |
1 related Return
| Return ID | App ID | Description | Archive Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2816 | 41686 | Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in SARS-CoV-2 infection: prospective cohort study using UK Biobank | 6 Nov 2020 |
1 Publication
| Pub ID | Title | Author(s) | Year | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2636 | Depressive symptoms, neuroticism, and participation in breast and cervical cancer screening: Cross-sectional and prospective evidence from UK Biobank | Niedzwiedz CL et al. | 2020 | Psychooncology |
Enabling scientific discoveries that improve human health