Table 1.

Syndromal and Subsyndromal Anxiety and Depression Prevalence in Older Adults Living in Public Housing

Mental Illnessa	n	%	95% C.L.b
Anxiety
Syndromal Anxietyc	33	17.4	12.3 to 23.5
Subsyndromal Anxiety	6	3.2	1.2 to 6.8
Any Anxiety	39	20.5	15.0 to 27.0
Depression
Syndromal Depressiond	12	6.3	3.3 to 10.8
Subsyndromal Depression	16	8.4	4.9 to 13.3
Any Depression	28	14.7	10.0 to 20.6
Anxiety and Depression
Syndromal Anxiety and/or Depression	39	20.5	15.0 to 27.0
Subsyndromal Anxiety and/or Depression	21	11.1	7.0 to 16.4
Any Anxiety and/or Depression	48	25.3	19.3 to 32.1

^aWith the exception of the subsyndromal conditions, all syndromal anxiety and depressive disorders are non-hierarchical, meaning that a single participant may have multiple anxiety and/or depressive disorders.

^b95% C.L. represents 95% confidence limits for the summary point estimates using exact methods.

^cSyndromal anxiety includes current panic disorder with (n = 3; 1.6%) and without agoraphobia (n = 2; 1.1%), agoraphobia without history of panic disorder (n = 0; 0%), social phobia (n = 2; 1.1%), specific phobia (n = 21; 11.1%), obsessive compulsive disorder (n = 1; 0.5%), posttraumatic stress disorder (n = 2; 1.1%), and generalized anxiety disorder (n = 6; 3.2%).

^dSyndromal depression includes dysthymic disorder (n = 2; 1.1%) and major depressive episode (n = 10; 5.3%).