Table 1. Demographic, social and economic characteristics of patients by depression symptom severity.

Depression severity	None or minimal (NM)	Mild (Mi)	Moderate (Mo)	Moderately severe or severe (MSS)	Total	P-value
N (% of total)	493 (47%)	375 (36%)	136 (13%)	39 (4%)	1043
Age median (IQR)	64 (56-71)	66 (58-73)	66 (59-73)	69 (60-74)	65 (57-72)	<0.01
Gender N (% Male)	223 (46%)	140 (38%)	34 (25%)	12 (32%)	409 (40%)	<0.01
Marital Status N(%)
Divorced/separated	25 (5%)	19 (5%)	10 (7%)	2 (5%)	56 (5%)	<0.05
Married	320 (65%)	227 (61%)	74 (54%)	17 (44%)	638 (61%)
Never married	33 (7%)	17 (5%)	7 (5%)	2 (5%)	59 (6%)
Widowed	113 (23%)	110 (30%)	45 (33%)	18 (46%)	286 (27%)
Education N(%)
Elementary	126 (26%)	145 (39%)	52 (39%)	22 (56%)	345 (33%)	<0.001
Middle-graduation	146 (30%)	76 (20%)	28 (21%)	3 (8%)	253 (24%)
Middle-no graduation	176 (36%)	135 (36%)	49 (36%)	10 (26%)	370 (36%)
University	41 (8%)	19 (5%)	6 (4%)	4 (10%)	70 (7%)
Employment status N(%)
Employed	126 (26%)	71 (19%)	16 (12%)	2 (5%)	215 (21%)	<0.01
Retired	356 (72%)	298 (80%)	119 (88%)	36 (92%)	809 (78%)
Unemployed	11 (2%)	6 (2%)	1 (1%)	1 (3%)	19 (1%)
Monthly income N(%)
<500	58 (17%)	65 (24%)	26 (27%)	8 (25%)	157 (21%)	<0.001
500-800	200 (58%)	162 (60%)	61 (62%)	22 (69%)	445 (60%)
>800	90 (26%)	41 (15%)	11 (11%)	2 (6%)	144 (19%)
Number of persons in household N(%)
One	96 (20%)	76 (20%)	40 (30%)	13 (33%)	225 (22%)	n.s.
Two	181 (37%)	148 (40%)	50 (37%)	13 (33%)	392 (38%)
Three	95 (19%)	64 (17%)	18 (13%)	7 (18%)	184 (18%)
Four	61 (12%)	44 (12%)	12 (9%)	3 (8%)	120 (12%)
Five or more	58 (12%)	41 (11%)	15 (11%)	3 (8%)	117 (11%)

n.s.=not significant