Table 1.
Mean (SD) scores on the PedsQL, CDI (youth aged ≤15 years), and BDI (youth aged ≥16 years), and percent scoring at or above the cutoff score for “serious level of depressive symptoms” on each inventory and for combined CDI and BDI by racial/ethnic group and by sex
| PedsQL (all ages) |
CDI (aged 10–15 years) |
BDI (aged ≥16 years) |
CDI ≥13 or BDI ≥14 (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Mean (SD) | N | Mean (SD) | ≥13 (%) | N | Mean (SD) | ≥14 (%) | ||
| Total | 689 | 80.02 (12.04) | 513 | 7.08 (6.36) | 14.8 | 174 | 6.36 (7.55) | 14.9 | 14.8 |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||||||
| American Indian | 42 | 78.23 (13.17) | 28 | 6.50 (7.62) | 14.3 | 15 | 7.87 (7.11) | 13.3 | 14.0 |
| Black non-Hispanic | 217 | 79.58 (12.35) | 166 | 7.02 (5.79) | 15.1 | 50 | 6.02 (7.21) | 14.0 | 14.8 |
| Hispanic | 282 | 80.54 (11.33) | 213 | 7.38 (6.13) | 15.0 | 68 | 7.40 (8.69) | 20.6 | 16.4 |
| White non-Hispanic | 137 | 80.09 (12.44) | 97 | 6.68 (7.41) | 14.4 | 38 | 4.21 (5.29) | 5.3 | 11.9 |
| Asian non-Hispanic | 11 | 81.25 (15.08) | 9 | 7.22 (6.22) | 11.1 | 3 | 8.00 (10.44) | 33.3 | 16.7 |
| P value* | 0.63 | 0.77 | 0.99 | 0.17 | 0.20 | 0.68 | |||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Female | 450 | 79.49 (12.13) | 351 | 7.19 (6.65) | 15.1 | 101 | 8.27 (8.79) | 22.8 | 16.8 |
| Male | 239 | 81.01 (11.83) | 162 | 6.85 (5.68) | 14.2 | 73 | 3.71 (4.18) | 4.1 | 11.1 |
| P value | 0.11 | 0.58 | 0.79 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.044 | |||
*P values across racial/ethnic groups were computed without Asian non-Hispanic because of the small sample size.