TABLE 1.
Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Older Adults With Major Depression and Executive Dysfunction Receiving Problem-Solving Therapy or Supportive Therapy
| Variable | Problem-Solving Therapy (N=110) |
Supportive Therapy (N=111) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |
| Age | 72.8 | 7.6 | 73.2 | 7.9 |
| Education (years) | 15.0 | 2.6 | 15.5 | 3.0 |
| Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score | 24.1 | 3.9 | 24.5 | 4.6 |
| Age at depression onset (years) | 58.3 | 20.9 | 53.3 | 23.6 |
| Total number depressive episodes | 2.1 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Mini-Mental State Examination score | 27.7 | 1.8 | 27.9 | 1.6 |
| Mattis Dementia Rating Scale, initiation/perseveration subscale score | 32.3 | 3.7 | 32.2 | 3.7 |
| Stroop Color-Word Test score | 21.9 | 8.6 | 22.2 | 7.9 |
| Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, perseverative errors | 15.4 | 9.7 | 13.7 | 8.4 |
| Trail Making Test, Part B, score | 139.4 | 63.3 | 135.7 | 64.0 |
| Frontal Systems Behavior Scale score | 40.0 | 9.4 | 39.8 | 8.8 |
| NEO Personality Inventory, neuroticism subscale score | 15.2 | 5.6 | 14.8 | 4.7 |
| Charlson comorbidity index score | 3.79 | 2.7 | 3.88 | 3.4 |
| World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule score | 27.0 | 7.7 | 26.2 | 7.0 |