Table 1.
| Characteristic | With financial strain N= 141 |
Without financial strain N = 67 |
Total N= 208 | X2 (p value) For categorical variablesa |
T statistics and P value for Continuous Variablesb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age, mean (SD) | 67.9 (7.7) | 73.1 (9.5) | 69.6 (8.7) | −3.93 (0.0002) | |
| Female % (N) | 78.0 (110) | 79.1 (53) | 78.4 (163) | 0.0318 (0.8584) | |
| Percent living alone | 53.9(76) | 62.7 (42) | 53.7 (118) | 1.4282 (0.2321) | |
| Education level | 1.7291 (0.4212) | ||||
| %< HS | 23.40 (33) | 16.42 (11) | 21.15 (44) | ||
| %=HS | 29.79 (42) | 28.36 (19) | 29.33 (61) | ||
| %> HS | 46.81 (66) | 55.22 (37) | 49.52 (103) | ||
| Mean (SD) (PHQ-9 severity score at baseline | 13.8 (5.1) | 11.4 (4.1) | 13.0 (4.9) | 3.51 (0.0006) | |
| Percent at each diagnostic category of PHQ-9 (baseline values) | 17.2 (0.0006) | ||||
| Mild | 27.66 (39) | 31.34 (21) | 28.85 (60) | ||
| Moderate | 27.66 (39) | 50.75(34) | 35.10 (73) | ||
| Mod. Severe | 28.37 (40) | 14.93 (10) | 24.04 (50) | ||
| Severe | 16.31 (23) | 2.99 (2) | 12.02 (25) | ||
| Baseline Depression knowledge and Self-efficacy mean score (SD) | 3.1 (0.4) | 3.2 (0.4) | 3.1 (0.4) | −1.69 (0.0930) | |
| Functional difficulties, mean (SD) | 2.1(0.7) | 1.7 (0.6) | 2.0 (0.7) | 4.1 (<0.0001) | |
| Anxiety score, mean (SD) | 2.6 (0.6) | 2.4 (0.6) | 2.5 (0.6) | 2.1 (0.0346) | |
| Percent at each level of financial strain | NA | NA | |||
| Not difficult at all | 0.0 (0) | 61.2 (41) | 19.7 (41) | ||
| Not very difficult | 0.0 (0) | 38.8 (26) | 12.5 (26) | ||
| Somewhat difficult | 55.3 (78) | 0.00 (0) | 37.5 (78) | ||
| Very difficult | 44.7 (63) | 0.00 (0) | 30.3 (63) | ||
a
Pearson x2 (df=1)
b
t test (df=1)