With regards to practical health-related
behaviors, the 2 items of social support most associated with improvement in depression were
willingness of significant others to talk with you and satisfaction with dependence upon significant
others; the 2 items of mobility limitations most associated with non-improvement of depression were
difficulty in carrying things and squatting. These findings suggested that health-related behaviors were
important to the depression outcome in the elderly; moreover, interventions to improve depression
should include practical health-related behaviors aimed at these modifiable risk factors