. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Jan 20.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2005 Jan;13(1):15–22. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajgp.13.1.15

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of WHAS Participants.

Variables	No Anxiety (N = 389)	Intermittent Anxiety (N = 324)	Chronic Anxiety (N = 78)	Statistic _[df]; p value
Self-rated health (M, SD)	3.26 (1.04)	3.51 (1.07)	3.77 (0.95)	K.W._[2]=19.59; < .001
Number of domains of disability (M, SD)	2.90 (0.83)	3.00 (0.81)	3.33 (0.78)	F_[2,788]=9.34; < .001
Depressive symptoms (M, SD)	5.76 (3.86)	8.57 (5.83)	12.64 (6.60)	F_[2,788]=9.34; < .001
Life events (M, SD)	0.80 (0.80)	0.90 (0.86)	1.22 (1.03)	F_[2,787]=70.01; < .001
Not enough emotional support	19.5%	36.7%	60.3%	X²_[2]=60.46; < .001

Note: K.W. = Kruskal Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks.