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Table 9 Associations between mid-life demographic and clinical factors in 1992, and late life CESD scores assessed 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 (1992)

rho

CESD (2012) Median (IQR)

p-value

Age

0.1

 

0.089

Affectometer Score

   

 Negative Mood Score

0.3

 

0.000

 Positive Mood Score

−0.3

 

0.000

 Wellbeing Score

−0.4

 

0.000

BMI

0.1

 

0.162

Daily Hassles Severity

0.3

 

0.000

Bothersome Symptoms Frequency

0.3

 

0.000

Attitude Towards Ageing

−0.1

 

0.187

Attitude Towards Menopause

−0.1

 

0.364

Number of Premenstrual Complaints

0.0

 

0.885

Self-Reported Physical Disease Current

  

0.093

 None reported

 

4(2–7)

 

 Physical Disease Reported

 

6(3–8)

 

Education

  

0.938

 0–12 years

 

4.9(2–8)

 

 12+ years

 

4(2–7)

 

Physical Activity

  

^0.350

 Rarely

 

5.8 (2–8)

 

 Sometimes

 

4.9 (2–7)

 

 Often

 

4.8 (1–7)

 

Work Status

  

0.559

 Not employed

 

5(3–8)

 

 Employed

 

4(2–7.5)

 

Self-Rated Health Status

  

0.843

  ‘Same as/worse than most’

 

4(2–8)

 

  ‘Better than most’

 

4.8(2–7)

 

Smoking Status

  

0.023

 Smoker

 

6(3.5–10)

 

 Non-smoker

 

4(2–7)

 

Alcohol Use in Last Week

  

0.655

 Yes

 

5(2–7)

 

 No

 

4(2–9)

 

Marital Status

  

^0.247

 Married/Defacto

 

4(2–8)

 

 Single/Divorced

 

5(3–7)

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