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. 2013 Oct 3;13:918. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-918

Table 4.

Percentage of population with mental health problems and physical multimorbidity

  Percentage of population suffering from mental health problems Physical multimorbidity
Population with mental health problems
Population without mental health problems
% CI % CI
All
22.50%
74.97%
(74.70-75.23)
58.14%
(57.98-58.30)
Men
14.47%
79.16%
(78.68-79.63)
61.28%
(61.04-61.51)
Women
28.45%
73.39%
(73.07-73.71)
55.36%
(55.13-55.59)
Age group (years)
65-69
18.16%
63.27%
(62.63-63.92)
46.59%
(46.28-46.90)
70-74
19.48%
72.16%
(71.49-72.82)
56.71%
(56.35-57,07)
75-79
22.78%
78.87%
(78.33-79.41)
64.69%
(64.35-65.03)
80-84
26.95%
81.53%
(80.99-82.06)
69.08%
(68.69-69.46)
85+
28.60%
79.12%
(78.56-79.68)
60.90%
(60.48-61.33)
Deprivation Index
DI1
21.16%
71.67%
(71.05-72.30)
51.67%
(51.31-52.03)
DI2
22.13%
73.29%
(72.69-73.90)
57.44%
(57.08-57.80)
DI3
22.69%
75.89%
(75.30-76.48)
59.92%
(59.55-60.29)
DI4
22.44%
75.75%
(75.17-76.33)
60.29%
(59.93-60.65)
DI5 24.25% 78.09% (77.53-78.65) 62.04% (61.67-62.41)

CI Confidence Interval (95%).

Physical multimorbidity was considered the concurrence of two or more chronic non-mental diseases in the same person.

They were considered as Mental health problems: Depression; Anxiety & other neurotic, stress related & somatoform disorders; Alcohol problems; Dementia; Schizophrenia, affective psychosis or bipolar disorder; Intellectual disability.