Grandmothers and Self-Management of Depressive Symptoms

HIGHLIGHTS
- Perceptions of depressive symptoms as an illness and in self-management and consequences of symptoms differed by provider diagnosis.
- Grandmothers differed in their perception of symptom seriousness by CES-D risk group, but not by caregiver group.
- Grandmothers who employed strategies to self-manage their depression utilized a variety of methods.