Cigarette smoking and depression: tests of causal linkages using a longitudinal birth cohort

• Published in: British journal of psychiatry Vol. 196; no. 6; pp. 440 - 446
• Main Authors: Boden, Joseph M, Fergusson, David M, Horwood, L John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Cambridge University Press 01.06.2010
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age Factors; Causal models; Child; Child development; Child, Preschool; Childbirth; Childbirth & labor; Cigarette smoking; Cigarettes; Comorbidity; Confounding factors; Data analysis; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - epidemiology; Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology; Drug dependence; Epidemiologic Methods; Female; Generalized linear models; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Modelling; New Zealand - epidemiology; Nicotine; Psychiatry; Public health; Risk factors; Self-medication; Smoking; Smoking - epidemiology; Smoking - psychology; Symptoms; Tobacco Use Disorder - epidemiology; Tobacco Use Disorder - psychology; New Zealand

Research on the comorbidity between cigarette smoking and major depression has not elucidated the pathways by which smoking is associated with depression. To examine the causal relationships between smoking and depression via fixed-effects regression and structural equation modelling. Data were gath...