Table 4.

Stratified Multivariate Adjusted Association of Selected Disaster Damage with Change in Geriatric Depression Scale(GDS) among the Survivors from the Disaster (N=3,464) in Japan

Characteristics	Coefficient	SE	95%CI			p-value	P for interaction
Entirely destroyed
Stratified by sexc
Men	1.89	0.33	1.24	,	2.55	<.0001	0.013
Women	0.76	0.28	0.21	,	1.31	0.007
Stratified by age in 2010
Age under 75	1.33	0.26	0.82	,	1.84	<.0001	0.24
75 or older	1.04	0.37	0.31	,	1.77	0.0049
Stratified by having psychiatric diseases in 2010d
Present	5.61	2.02	1.66	,	9.56	0.0054	0.16
No	1.24	0.22	0.81	,	1.66	<.0001
Disruption of access to psychiatry
Stratified by having psychiatric diseases in 2010d
Present	3.88	2.36	−0.75	,	8.51	0.10	0.87
No	2.55	0.67	1.24	,	3.86	0.0001

Note. GDS: Geriatric Depression Scale. CI: confidence interval. SE: standard error.

^a. Age (continuous), sex, marital status, education, income, self-rated health, body mass index, smoking status, drinking status, having past/present psychiatric diseases, having any chronic diseases or conditions, frequency of informal socializing, and GDS score in 2010 were adjusted in the model.

^b. Other types of disaster damage were not simultaneously included in the same model.

^c“Sex” is not included in the analysis.

^d“Having past/present psychiatric diseases” is not adjusted in the analysis.