ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Mental Health
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1574386
This article is part of the Research TopicNeuromodulation of mood and eating behaviorView all 4 articles
Development and validation of a predictive model for depression risk in Chinese obese adults
Provisionally accepted
- 1Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
- 2Nanchang Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
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Objective: To construct a prediction model for the risk of depression in the obese population, aiming to facilitate the early identification of high-risk individuals and guide personalized preventive interventions. Methods: This study was based on the data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS 2015), the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-10 (CES-D10) to assess the depression of obese patients, Lasso regression and multivariable logistic regression were used to select predictors, the construction of a nomogram model, and the use of the random splitting method divided into a training set (n=974) and a validation set(n=418) by the 7:3 method, and the model was evaluated by the ROC curves and the AUC, the H-L goodness-of-fit test, the calibration graphs, and the clinical decision-making curve to assess the model.Results: A total of 1392 obese patients were finally included, with a prevalence of depression of 32.68%. Age, respiratory function, renal disease, digestive disease, grip strength, rheumatism and arthritis, and sleep duration were selected to construct the predictive nomogram model of depression risk in obese patients, and the AUCs of the training set and validation set were 0.715 (95% CI = 0.681 -0.749) and 0.716 (95% CI = 0.665 -0.767), This suggests that the model has moderate discriminatory power. Respectively, the H-L test was statistically insignificant (P>0.05, H-L test). (P>0.05), Goodness of fit, calibration curves showed significant agreement between the model and actual observations, and clinical decision curves indicated good model calibration and net benefit. Conclusion: The model constructed in this study has good efficacy in predicting the occurrence of depression in the obese population and can be used for the early identification of high-risk groups and the adoption of targeted preventive measures to reduce the risk of depression.
Keywords: Obesity, Risk of Depression, predictive models, nomogram, Chinese population
Received: 10 Feb 2025; Accepted: 30 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: si en hong, Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, China
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