Table 2.
Association between depression and cause of injury, site of injury, and sociodemographic factors (N=106).
| Depression n=73 (69%) |
No depression n=33 (31%) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Cause of injury | 0.65 | ||
| Fall | 28 (71.8) | 11 (33.3) | |
| Motor Vehicle | 25 (62.5) | 15 (37.5) | |
| Pedestrian | 9 (81.8) | 2 (18.2) | |
| Work Related | 7 (9.6) | 3 (9.1) | |
| Back Pain | 2 (50) | 2 (50) | |
| Other | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | |
| Site of injury | 0.92 | ||
| Cervical spine | 25 (69) | 11 (31) | |
| Thoracic spine | 25 (64) | 14 (36) | |
| Lumber spine | 44 (71) | 18 (29) | |
| Sacral spine | 7 (70) | 3 (30) | |
| Age | 0.27 | ||
| ≤35 | 38 (64) | 21 (36) | |
| >35 | 35 (75) | 12 (25) | |
| Sex | 0.09 | ||
| Male | 67 (67) | 33 (33) | |
| Female | 6 (100) | 0 | |
| Nationality | 0.20 | ||
| Asia | 46 (64) | 26 (36) | |
| Africa & Europe | 7 (70) | 3 (30) | |
| Middle East | 20 (83) | 4 (17) | |
| Education | 0.99 | ||
| School | 42 (69) | 19 (31) | |
| University | 17 (68) | 8 (32) | |
| Uneducated | 14 (70) | 6 (30) | |
| Marital status | 0.79 | ||
| Married | 49 (68) | 23 (32) | |
| Single | 24 (71) | 10 (29) | |
| Number of children | 0.095 | ||
| 0 | 28 (72) | 11 (28) | |
| 1-3 | 33 (66) | 17 (34) | |
| 4-6 | 10 (91) | 1 (9) | |
| 7-9 | 2 (33) | 4 (67) | |