Table 3. Association between personality and identification of depression by the primary care doctor.

OR, odds ratio. 95% confidence interval shown in brackets. Model 1 includes terms for self-identified ethnicity, number of medical conditions, and age; Model 2 includes all terms from Model 1 plus the Centers for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score.

	Unadjusted OR	Model 1	Model 2
NEUROTICISM
Low (n=32)	0.80 [0.37, 1.70]	0.70 [0.31, 1.56]	0.81 [0.35, 1.87]
Average (n=180)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High (n=106)	2.36 [1.42, 3.93]	2.02 [1.19, 3.45]	1.46 [0.82, 2.58]
p value	0.002	0.012	0.327
EXTRAVERSION
Low (n=129)	2.47 [1.47, 4.16]	2.42 [1.39, 4.22]	2.24 [1.26, 4.00]
Average (n=122)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High (n=67)	0.66 [0.36, 1.20]	0.59 [0.31, 1.11]	0.65 [0.34, 1.26]
p value	<0.001	<0.001	0.001
OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE
Low (n=157)	1.49 [0.94, 2.40]	1.57 [0.95, 2.58]	1.58 [0.94, 2.65]
Average (n=128)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High (n=33)	1.81 [ 0.82, 3.98]	1.62 [0.70, 3.72]	1.74 [0.73, 4.16]
p value	0.150	0.172	0.174
AGREEABLENESS
Low (n=100)	1.31 [0.77, 2.22]	1.41 [0.79, 2.49]	1.00 [0.54, 1.83]
Average (n=130)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High (n=88)	1.20 [0.70, 2.07]	1.14 [0.64, 2.03]	1.11 [0.61, 2.02]
p value	0.580	0.505	0.935
CONSCIENTIOUSNESS
Low (n=119)	1.46 [0.89, 2.39]	1.24 [0.74, 2.11]	1.00 [0.57, 1.74]
Average (n=146)	1.00	1.00	1.00
High (n=53)	0.54 [0.29, 1.03]	0.50 [0.25, 0.98]	0.45 [0.22, 0.91]
p value	0.014	0.037	0.062