Table 2.
Characteristics of older adults according to the presence of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. Peru, 2020
| Anxiety | Depression | Suicidal ideation | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Presence | Presence | p-value | No Presence | Presence | p-value | Without SI | With SI | p-value | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||||
| Total | 163 | 86 | 161 | 88 | 221 | 16 | |||
| Age (Median, IQR) | 72 (8.0) | 71 (9.0) | 0.091 | 71.5 (8.0) | 71 (9.0) | 0.541 | 72 (8.0) | 71 (9.0) | 0.901 |
| Categorized age | |||||||||
| 60–69 years | 44 (27.2) | 32 (37.6) | 0.192 | 45 (28.1) | 31 (35.6) | 0.402 | 66 (29.9) | 5 (33.3) | 0.952 |
| 70–79 years | 90 (55.6) | 43 (50.6) | 91 (56.9) | 42 (48.3) | 121 (54.8) | 8 (53.3) | |||
| ≥80 years | 28 (17.3) | 10 (11.8) | 24 (15.0) | 14 (16.1) | 34 (15.4) | 2 (13.3) | |||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Female | 106 (65.0) | 69 (80.2) | 0.012 | 109 (67.7) | 66 (75.0) | 0.232 | 154 (69.7) | 13 (81.2) | 0.322 |
| Male | 57 (35.0) | 17 (19.8) | 52 (32.3) | 22 (25.0) | 67 (30.3) | 3 (18.8) | |||
| Cohabitation | |||||||||
| Live alone | 3 (1.8) | 3 (3.5) | 0.573 | 3 (1.9) | 3 (3.4) | 0.643 | 6 (2.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0.423 |
| Live with one person | 33 (20.2) | 20 (23.5%) | 33 (20.5) | 20 (23.0) | 45 (20.4) | 5 (33.3) | |||
| Live with two or more people | 127 (77.9) | 62 (72.9) | 125 (77.6) | 64 (73.6) | 170 (76.9) | 10 (66.7) | |||
| Region where patient is attended | |||||||||
| Lima | 34 (21.4) | 20 (24.4) | 0.602 | 33 (21.0) | 21 (25.0) | 0.492 | 46 (21.4) | 4 (28.6) | 0.552 |
| Other regions | 125 (78.6) | 62 (75.6) | 124 (79.0) | 63 (75.0) | 169 (78.6) | 10 (71.4) | |||
| Complicated grief (CG) | |||||||||
| With CG | 13 (8.0) | 22 (25.6) | < 0.0012 | 11 (6.8) | 24 (27.3) | < 0.0012 | 24 (10.9) | 7 (43.8) | < 0.0012 |
| Without CG | 150 (92.0) | 64 (74.4) | 150 (93.2) | 64 (72.7) | 197 (89.1) | 9 (56.2) | |||
IQR: interquartile range
1Mann Whitney U test
2Fisher’s exact test
3Chi-square test