Table 1.
Sample Description of Medicare Beneficiaries by Depression Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2002-2009
| Depression | No Depression | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Wt% | N | Wt% | Sig | |
| All | 1,303 | 9.3 | 12,183 | 90.7 | |
| Gender | *** | ||||
| Female | 897 | 11.7 | 6,539 | 88.3 | |
| Male | 406 | 6.2 | 5,644 | 93.8 | |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||||
| White | 1,047 | 9.3 | 9,822 | 90.7 | |
| African American | 96 | 7.9 | 1,090 | 92.1 | |
| Latino | 97 | 10.7 | 714 | 89.3 | |
| Others | 61 | 10.0 | 539 | 90.0 | |
| Age | *** | ||||
| Less Than or Equal To 55 | 322 | 24.0 | 1,107 | 76.0 | |
| 56-64 | 128 | 16.8 | 602 | 83.2 | |
| 65-69 | 202 | 6.7 | 2,573 | 93.3 | |
| 70-74 | 156 | 6.9 | 2,082 | 93.1 | |
| Greater Than 75 | 495 | 7.8 | 5,819 | 92.2 | |
| Marital Status | *** | ||||
| Married | 518 | 7.3 | 6,500 | 92.7 | |
| Widowed | 410 | 10.3 | 3,600 | 89.7 | |
| Divorced/Separated | 241 | 14.9 | 1,291 | 85.1 | |
| Other | 133 | 11.9 | 790 | 88.1 | |
| Metropolitan Area | |||||
| Yes | 893 | 9.2 | 8,397 | 90.8 | |
| No | 410 | 9.4 | 3,784 | 90.6 | |
| Education | *** | ||||
| Less Than or Equal To High School | 402 | 10.1 | 3,405 | 89.9 | |
| High School | 506 | 9.5 | 4,572 | 90.5 | |
| Some coll | 208 | 10.6 | 1,709 | 89.4 | |
| College | 180 | 6.7 | 2,456 | 93.3 | |
| Poverty Status | *** | ||||
| Greater Than or Equal To 200% | 441 | 7.1 | 5,766 | 92.9 | |
| Less Than 200% | 862 | 11.4 | 6,417 | 88.6 | |
| Medicaid | *** | ||||
| Yes | 449 | 17.3 | 2,123 | 82.7 | |
| No | 854 | 7.7 | 10,060 | 92.3 | |
| Private Insurance | *** | ||||
| Yes | 750 | 7.9 | 8,588 | 92.1 | |
| No | 553 | 12.7 | 3,595 | 87.3 | |
| General Health Status | *** | ||||
| Excellent | 79 | 4.4 | 1,765 | 95.6 | |
| Very good | 204 | 5.4 | 3,356 | 94.6 | |
| Good | 399 | 8.8 | 4,025 | 91.2 | |
| Fair | 368 | 14.0 | 2,174 | 86.0 | |
| Poor | 248 | 23.0 | 808 | 77.0 | |
| Activities of Daily Living (ADL) | *** | ||||
| None | 732 | 7.5 | 8,630 | 92.5 | |
| 1-2 | 359 | 12.1 | 2,575 | 87.9 | |
| 3-6 | 208 | 18.1 | 957 | 81.9 | |
| Body Mass Index | *** | ||||
| Underweight | 42 | 13.9 | 245 | 86.1 | |
| Normal | 407 | 8.8 | 4,015 | 91.2 | |
| Oveweight | 418 | 8.2 | 4,662 | 91.8 | |
| Obese | 333 | 9.9 | 2,757 | 90.1 | |
| Morbidly Obese | 83 | 16.4 | 385 | 83.6 | |
| Smoking Status | |||||
| Current smoker | 283 | 14.6 | 1,553 | 85.4 | *** |
| Past smoker | 491 | 7.7 | 5,632 | 92.3 | |
| Never smoked | 528 | 9.2 | 4,979 | 90.8 | |
| Baseline Hospitalizations | |||||
| Yes | 470 | 18.6 | 2,027 | 81.4 | |
| No | 833 | 7.3 | 10,156 | 92.7 | |
Note: Based on a sample of 13,486 community dwelling Medicare beneficiaries who were followed for 3 years, were first interviewed in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007, enrolled in feefor-service program and had at least one chronic physical condition (arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease (myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, and other heart conditions), hypertension, respiratory diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - COPD, and asthma), and osteoporosis). Asterisks represent statistical significance between women and men based on Chi-square tests
***
p < 0.001
Sig: significance, Wt%: weighted percentage