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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Asian Am J Psychol. 2014 Aug 11;5(4):353–363. doi: 10.1037/a0035680

Table 3.

Lifetime prevalence of DSM-IV/WMH-CIDI anxiety and mood disorders by nativity, gender, and sociodemographic characteristics (n=2095)

Any Anxiety Disorder Any Mood Disorder

Total Immigrant US-born Total Immigrant US-born

Men (n=772) Women (n=869) Men (n=226) Women (n=228) Men (n=772) Women (n=869) Men (n=226) Women (n=228)

Age
  18–29 (ref) 10.6 (7.1–15.6) 5.7 (2.5–12.3) 11.4 (6.0–20.6) 11.6 (5.5–22.5) 16.6 (8.9–29.0) 13.1 (9.8–17.4) 11.0 (6.4–18.1) 16.3 (10.6–24.1) 6.9 (2.9–15.3) 17.4 (9.1–30.8)
  30–44 9.9 (6.4–15.2) 9.5 (3.8–22.0) 8.5 (5.3–13.2) 10.7 (3.5–28.0) 18.2 (10.9–28.8) 9.3 (6.4–13.3) 6.8 (3.2–13.8) 7.8 (4.7–12.8)* 16.5 (8.4–29.6) 19.2 (10.5–34.2)
  45–59 9.9 (6.9–13.9) 9.9 (5.0–18.8) 7.2 (3.9–12.8) 11.4 (3.9–28.6) 24.7 (10.2–48.7) 7.0 (4.9–9.9)* 7.0 (3.9–12.0) 5.1 (3.0–8.4)** 6.9 (2.5–17.7) 19.8 (10.5–34.2)
  ≥ 60 11.0 (6.5–17.8) 12.7 (6.3–23.8)* 13.3 (5.8–27.7) Dropped 6.0 (2.2–15.4) 7.3 (3.9–13.3)* 8.6 (3.1–21.4) 6.3 (2.0–17.8) Dropped 13.6 (6.4–26.8)

Marital status
  Married (ref) 8.5 (6.9–10.5) 8.2 (5.3–12.5) 8.0 (5.8–11.0) 9.5 (3.5–23.2) 12.8 (7.0–22.3) 6.1 (5.0–7.5) 6.0 (4.0–8.8) 6.2 (4.0–9.6) 3.7 (2.1–6.7) 8.7 (3.5–20.0)
  Never Married 13.4 (8.0–21.7)* 11.7 (5.9–21.8) 13.6 (8.6–20.8) 12.3 (5.1–26.6) 16.9 (9.4–28.7) 15.8 (11.7–20.9)*** 13.4 (7.2–23.5)* 19.9 (13.2–29.0)** 10.5 (4.6–22.1)* 19.6 (11.0–32.3)
  Widw/Sep/Div 13.7 (8.4–21.5) 10.7 (3.5–28.2) 13.3 (6.5–25.5) 2.4 (0.3–15.7) 27.5 (13.1–49.0) 16.2 (10.8–23.6)*** 13.1 (3.6–37.9) 8.5 (4.6–15.1) 23.7 (9.0–49.4)** 35.6 (20.9–53.6)*

Education
  0–11 8.6 (4.9–14.6) 9.8 (3.7–23.4) 8.6 (4.2–16.7) Dropped Dropped 6.2 (3.5–10.6) 2.2 (0.8–5.9)*** 8.5 (4.3–16.2) 7.6 (0.9–42.3) 10.9 (4.7–23.3)
  12 (ref) 8.7 (5.4–13.7) 8.4 (3.6–18.4) 7.6 (3.6–15.6) 7.0 (3.9–12.2) 15.3 (7.1–29.9) 8.9 (5.6–14.0) 12.1 (6.7–20.9) 4.9 (1.5–14.8) 9.5 (4.1–20.9) 12.7 (5.0–28.6)
  13–15 10.8 (7.5–15.4) 6.7 (3.5–12.4) 9.5 (6.2–14.2) 8.6 (3.3–20.7) 21.2 (10.8–37.6) 10.8 (8.4–13.8) 6.5 (2.9–14.1) 11.4 (7.7–16.6) 10.4 (3.8–25.4) 15.9 (8.5–27.7)
  ≥ 16 11.1 (8.6–14.2) 10.2 (6.7–15.1) 10.7 (7.4–15.2) 13.2 (5.1–30.0) 14.5 (8.2–24.4) 10.1 (8.0–12.8) 9.3 (5.8–14.4) 8.3 (6.2–11.0) 7.8 (3.8–15.3) 23.7 (14.1–36.9)

Ethnicity
  Vietnamese 8.1 (5.6–11.5) 8.1 (5.0–13.0) 7.8 (4.3–13.8) Dropped 17.7 (4.3–50.8) 8.7 (5.0–14.6) 11.8 (5.4–23.8) 5.8 (3.0–10.9) Dropped 21.8 (3.4–68.7)
  Filipino 10.3 (8.4–12.7) 9.9 (6.1–15.5) 6.8 (4.1–11.0) 11.0 (5.1–22.1) 19.8 (11.3–32.3) 7.2 (4.9–10.5) 4.0 (1.9–8.0) 6.1 (3.5–10.4) 9.9 (3.6–24.5) 13.9 (6.8–26.2)*
  Chinese (ref) 11.5 (8.0–16.3) 7.9 (4.1–14.7) 11.4 (7.2–17.7) 18.6 (6.4–43.3) 20.1 (10.6–34.8) 10.2 (7.1–14.4) 6.7 (3.9–11.5) 8.5 (5.1–13.8) 8.8 (4.9–15.3) 34.1 (23.4–46.7)
  Other Asian 10.0 (6.5–15.0) 10.3 (4.2–23.0) 10.2 (6.5–15.6) 5.6 (2.0–15.2)* 13.4 (6.6–25.3) 10.5 (7.6–14.4) 9.5 (4.6–18.8) 11.7 (7.7–17.6) 8.9 (4.2–18.0) 11.9 (5.7–23.0)**

Household Income
  $ 0–14,999 11.7 (7.4–17.9) 15.4 (6.9–30.9) 8.3 (3.9–16.8) 13.6 (4.0–37.5) 12.7 (6.2–24.4) 15.6 (10.9–21.8)*** 16.2 (7.4–31.9)* 13.2 (7.3–22.8) 15.0 (4.9–37.9) 22.9 (11.0–41.7)
  $ 15,000–34,999 9.4 (4.8–17.5) 4.6 (1.6–12.1) 8.0 (3.4–17.7) 18.0 (6.7–40.0) 22.7 (8.5–48.3) 9.9 (5.5–17.3) 6.3 (3.2–11.9) 9.1 (3.7–20.9) Dropped 27.9 (12.5–51.3)
  $ 35,000–74,999 10.5 (8.1–13.5) 7.2 (4.6–11.1) 11.0 (7.1–16.7) 11.7 (3.1–35.2) 21.0 (12.4–33.4) 8.2 (6.4–10.5) 8.3 (4.2–15.7) 7.4 (3.8–14.0) 5.9 (2.2–15.0) 15.8 (6.8–32.3)
  ≥ $ 75,000 (ref) 9.7 (7.3–12.7) 9.4 (5.5–15.7) 9.5 (6.9–12.8) 5.8 (2.1–14.8) 15.0 (8.1–26.2) 7.4 (5.6–9.7) 5.2 (3.7–7.4) 6.5 (4.3–9.7) 10.9 (5.4–21.0) 13.0 (7.6–21.4)

English proficiency
  Poor/Fair 10.7 (7.3–15.6) 13.8 (7.4–24.4)* 8.9 (5.9–13.2) 11.5 (3.8–30.2) 5.1 (0.6–31.3) 10.6 (8.2–13.5) 12.6 (7.8–19.6)* 8.8 (5.4–14.0) 20.6 (8.4–42.2) 10.6 (2.8–32.7)
  Excellent/Good (ref) 10.0 (7.9–12.4) 6.5 (4.7–9.0) 10.0 (7.3–13.6) 9.5 (4.2–20.2) 17.6 (11.4–26.3) 8.9 (7.1–11.1) 5.5 (3.0–9.7) 8.4 (6.0–11.7) 8.1 (5.1–12.7) 18.1 (11.7–27.0)
*

Significantly different from reference group (*p<.05, **p<.01, ***p<.001)

Note: In instances of zero positive cases, the category was “Dropped” from the analysis.