Pathways into Multimorbidity
OBJECTIVE 4:
To elucidate interdependencies between physical and mental health and pathways into multimorbidity in changing family systems
Objective 4 aims to capture and understand mutual feedback effects between physical and mental disease and longitudinal pathways of multimorbidity emergence in changing family systems.
Major goals of Objective 4 are to elucidate the biopsychosocial pathways underlying multimorbidity dynamics, especially related to short- and longer-term consequences of depression and cardiometabolic risk factors and disorders. The Objective will also investigate how pre-disorder pathways of risk and resilience are shaped by interactions between genetic susceptibility and the physical, social, and family environment.
Research Questions:
What are the social, biological, and biosocial pathways underlying the interrelatedness of mental and physical disease and multimorbidity?
How do changing family systems contribute to and protect against adverse disease trajectories?