Interaction between pre- and post-migration factors on depressive symptoms in new migrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China.

However, it is interesting to note that the direct impact of poor planning for migration on depressive symptoms may be significant but transient.

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Our main outcome measure, CES-D scores, decreased substantially from 11.4 at baseline assessment to 5.8 at 1-year follow-up, indicating that most of the migrants who took part in the second round of interviews had improved (Table 1 ). Predictors of Depressive Symptoms at Baseline Assessment When the baseline CES-D scores were used as the dependent variable in the regression model, as can be seen in Table 2 the result was highly significant.

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