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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2011 Aug;63(8):1178–1187. doi: 10.1002/acr.20489

Table 5.

Depression and Quality of Life by Cognitive impairment

BDI score
(mean ± SD)
PedsQL score
(mean ± SD)
Depressione
(N, %)
Method 1
No impairment 7.4 ± 6.1 75.2 ± 14.0 6 (23)
Cognitive impairmenta 7.6 ± 5.8 69.8 ± 12.9 4 (29)
Method 2
No impairment 7.5 ± 6.5 74.4 ± 14.2 8 (26)
Decline onlyb 5.8 ± 3.3 73.9 ± 12.1 1 (17)
Cognitive impairmentc 10.0 ± 4.4 60.8 ± 3.8 1 (33)
Method 3
No impairment 6.1 ± 6.1 79.3 ± 11.6 3 (20)
Cognitive impairmentd 8.2 ± 5.8 69.7 ± 13.8 7 (28)
a

1 domain score < 2 SD below mean OR 2 or more domain scores between 1 and 2 SD below mean;

b

1 domain score < 1.5 SD below mean;

c

1 domain score < 2 SD below mean

d

2 or more tests which span two cognitive domains with scores < 1.5 SD below mean

e

Depression defined as Beck Depression Inventory Score >10