Table 2.
Characteristics of study variables comparing according to mental health and wellbeing
| Symptoms of common mental disorder | Anxious or depressed | Low wellbeing score | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (GHQ-12) | (EQ5D) | (WEMWBS) | ||||||||||
| Yes | No | p | Total | Yes | No | p | Total | Yes | No | p | Total | |
| (n = 12,462) | (n = 60,401) | (n = 72,863) | (n = 3,251) | (n = 10,753) | (n = 14,004) | (n = 15,127) | (n = 42,029) | (n = 57,156) | ||||
| Age (25/50/75 percentile) | 31/46/62 | 27/43/57 | 30/46/61 | 34/48/63 | 37/50/63 | 35/48/63 | 38/46/62 | 40/46/60 | 38/46/61 | |||
| Male (%) | 35.7 | 45.8 | <0.001 | 44.0 | 46.6 | 38.3 | <0.001 | 44.7 | 42.6 | 44.7 | <0.001 | 44.1 |
| Lesbian/Gay (%) | 1.6 | 0.9 | <0.001 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.10 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.07 | 1.0 |
| Bisexual (%) | 1.9 | 0.6 | <0.001 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | <0.001 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.6 | <0.001 | 0.7 |
| ‘Other’ (%) | 1.2 | 0.5 | <0.001 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.3 | <0.001 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.6 | <0.001 | 0.7 |
| Ethnic minority (%) | 12.7 | 8.9 | <0.001 | 9.5 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 0.08 | 9.4 | 3.8 | 5.0 | <0.001 | 4.7 |
| University degree (%) | 22.6 | 26.5 | <0.001 | 25.8 | 27.3 | 20.5 | <0.001 | 25.7 | 18.9 | 30.5 | <0.001 | 27.5 |
| Smoker (%) | 42.6 | 40.5 | <0.001 | 40.9 | 26.7 | 17.1 | <0.001 | 19.3 | 31.6 | 28.9 | <0.001 | 29.7 |
| Longstanding illness (%) | 51.9 | 32.5 | <0.001 | 35.8 | 62.7 | 35.4 | <0.001 | 41.7 | 53.1 | 33.4 | <0.001 | 38.6 |
| Married/cohabiting (%) | 51.3 | 63.6 | <0.001 | 61.5 | 55.7 | 66.8 | <0.001 | 64.3 | 56.2 | 69.4 | <0.001 | 65.9 |