Table 2.
Cross-sectional association between depressive symptom severity levels and T2D at baseline
| Depressive symptoms | Type 2 diabetes | Chi-square tests | χ2(df) | p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absent (n = 4311) | Present (n = 1913) | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | ||||
| Severe | 78 | 1.8 | 60 | 3.1 | Pearson-test | 15.84 (3) | 0.001* |
| Moderate | 280 | 6.5 | 151 | 7.9 | Linear-by-linear | 13.49 (1) | < 0.001* |
| Mild | 473 | 11.0 | 215 | 11.2 | Deviation | 2.35 (2) | 0.154 |
| Minimal | 3480 | 80.7 | 1487 | 77.7 | |||
df degrees of freedom
*Bold: significant comparison. Depressive symptoms, BDI-II scores: minimal (0–13), mild (14–19), moderate (20–28), and severe (29 or high)