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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Addiction. 2008 Feb 4;103(4):524–534. doi: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.02118.x

Table 1.

Association of depression with substance-related behaviors.

k r CI t Q
Depression—current drug use and impairment 25 0.10 0.07 0.14 5.91* 52.29*
Depression—current alcohol use and impairment 7 0.08 0.04 0.12 4.22* 6.66
Depression—future drug use and impairment 15 0.01 −0.05 0.07 0.48 43.27*
Depression—treatment participation 18 0.06 0.04 0.09 4.59* 22.96
Depression—needle sharing 13 0.11 0.08 0.14 8.23* 15.86

k: number of studies, r: correlation coefficient, CI: 95% confidence interval, t: test for significance of the mean effect size, Q: test for heterogeneity of effect sizes (significant values indicate heterogeneity).

*

P < 0.001.