Multimorbidity, depressive symptoms and disability in activities of daily living amongst middle-aged and older Chinese: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

Given that multimorbidity is strongly associated with disability in activities of daily living (ADL) and the mechanism still remains unclear, this study sought to investigate the mediating effect of depressive symptoms on such association.A longitudinal dataset was drawn from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS, 2011-2015), including 3951 adults aged 45 years and above. By sex, logistic regression and mediation analysis...