Table 3.

Results of regression analysis between depressive symptoms and abdominal obesity in women aged 18–49 years in the DHS^* 2018 and 2019 data (n 17 067)

Variable	Depressive symptoms
	Raw PR			Adjusted statistical model†			Adjusted theoretical model‡
	PR	95 % CI	P-value	PR	95 % CI	P-value	PR	95 % CI	P-value
Abdominal obesity
No abdominal obesity	Ref			Ref			Ref
With abdominal obesity	1·26	1·03, 1·57	0·028	1·12	0·91, 1·38	0·282	1·15	0·92, 1·42	0·213
Age (years)
30–39				0·96	0·74, 1·25	0·775	0·99	0·76, 1·31	0·975
40–49				1·22	0·92, 1·63	0·172	1·33	0·99, 1·78	0·056
Educational attainment
Primary				1·48	0·87, 2·53	0·151
Secondary				1·10	0·64, 1·89	0·726
Higher				0·71	0·40, 1·27	0·247
Marital status
Married				0·99	0·47, 2·07	0·979	1·05	0·49, 2·23	0·896
Cohabitant				0·89	0·44, 1·81	0·762	0·95	0·46, 1·97	0·900
Widow				1·64	0·71, 3·79	0·244	1·82	0·79, 4·23	0·162
Separate				1·22	0·59, 2·52	0·581	1·23	0·58, 2·58	0·586
Natural region
Rest of coast				0·74	0·53, 1·01	0·061
Sierra				0·88	0·65, 1·19	0·409
Forest				0·67	0·48, 0·93	0·018
Alcohol
Yes				1·55	1·04, 2·29	0·028	1·47	0·99, 2·19	0·053
Diabetes mellitus
Yes				1·76	0·98, 3·16	0·060	1·60	0·89, 2·88	0·115
Arterial hypertension
Yes				153	1·13, 2·08	0·07	1·54	1·12, 2·10	0·007
IPV
Yes				2·21	1·73, 2·82	<0·001	2·32	1·82, 2·96	<0·001
Level of wealth
Middle							0·87	0·66, 1·14	0·326
Richer							0·80	0·59, 1·08	0·150
Area of residence
Rural							0·89	0·72, 1·09	0·249
Health insurance
Yes							0·96	0·75, 1·23	0·760

DHS, Demographic Health Survey; PR, prevalence ratio; IPV, intimate partner violence.

^*The results were weighted considering the characteristics of the probability and two-stage sampling defined by the Peruvian DHS.

^†Adjusted for abdominal obesity, age, education level, marital status, natural region, alcohol, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and IPV.

^‡Adjusted for abdominal obesity, age, marital status, wealth index, health insurance, alcohol, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension and IPV.