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Table 7 Cross-Sectional Association between CESD, lifestyle and health variables in 2012

From: Mid-life predictors of late-life depressive symptoms; determining risk factors spanning two decades in the Women’s Heathy Ageing Project

Variable

rho

CESD Median (IQR)

p-value

Age

0.1

 

0.107

Affectometer Score

 Negative Mood Score

0.6

 

0.000

 Positive Mood Score

−0.5

 

0.000

 Wellbeing Score

0.6

 

0.000

Geriatric Depression Scale

0.6

 

0.000

Hospital Anxiety Stress Scale

   

Anxiety Subscale

0.6

 

0.000

Depression Subscale

0.6

 

0.000

Daily Hassles Severity

0.4

 

0.000

Bothersome Symptoms Frequency

0.5

 

0.000

BMI

0.1

 

0.000

Education

  

^0.446

 0–12 years

 

5(2–8)

 

 12+ years

 

4(2–7)

 

Marital Status

  

^0.734

 Married/Defacto

 

5(4–7)

 

 Single/Divorced

 

4(2–7.5)

 

Physical Activity

  

^0.441

 Rarely

 

6.1 (2–9)

 

 Sometime

 

4.64 (2–7)

 

 Often

 

4.97 (2–7)

 

Work Status

  

^ 0.039

 Not employed

 

5(2–8)

 

 Employed

 

4(1–7)

 

Self-Rated Health Status

  

0.014

  ‘Same as/worse than most’

 

6(2.5–9)

 

  ‘Better than most’

 

4(1.5–6)

 

Smoking Status

  

0.042

 Smoker

 

7(4.5–11)

 

 Non-smoker

 

4(2–7)

 
  1. Spearman Correlation; Mann-Whitney Test; ^ Kruskall-Wallis Test; p < 0.05 italicized; p < 0.001 included as potential confounder