Table 1. Baseline characteristics of 46 older participants enrolled in psychological treatment for depression, M (±SD) or N (%).
| Participant Characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Age in Years | 70.78 (7.3) |
| Education in Years | 15.78 (2.5) |
| Female Sex | 30 (65.2) |
| Ethnicity | |
| American Indian/Alaskan | 3 (6.5) |
| Asian | 5 (10.9) |
| Black | 5 (10.9) |
| Pacific Islander/Hawaiian | 1 (2.2) |
| White | 32 (69.6) |
| Mental Health (SF-36) | 33.10 (9.4) |
| Physical Health (SF-36) | 41.16 (12.3) |
| Memory (HVLT; # of words) | 7.27 (3.3) |
| Executive Functioning | |
| Animal fluency (Animals; # of words) | 16.41 (5.4) |
| Letter fluency (COWAT; # of words) | 36.85 (14.3) |
| Attention (TMT-A; time in sec) | 46.83 (24.3) |
| Shifting (TMT-B; time in sec) | 125.90 (68.8) |
| Abstract reasoning (WCST; # of categories) | 1.83 (1.6) |
| Depression Severity (HAM-D) | |
| Baseline | 22.54 (2.7) |
| 12-week | 12.76 (6.1) |
Note: SF-36 = The Quality Metric Short Form 36-item Health Survey; HVLT = Hopkins Verbal Learning Test – Revised; Animals = Animal Naming task; COWAT = Controlled Oral Word Association Test; TMT-A = Trail Making Test, Part A; TMT-B = Trail Making Test, Part B; WCST= Wisconsin Card Sorting Task; HAM-D = Hamilton Depression Scale. SF-36 Mental and Physical Health component summary scores have a possible range of 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating higher functioning. Due to missing data, the sample size for the HVLT = 45 and for the TMT-A, TMT-B, WCST = 41.