Table 4.
Impact of factors on prolongation of anxiety/depression
| Univariate analysis
| ||
|---|---|---|
| Factors | Prolongation rate | P-value |
| Age | ||
| ≥65 years | 75.8% | 0.089 |
| <65 years | 52.2% | |
| Sex | ||
| Female | 62.9% | 0.572 |
| Male | 71.4% | |
| Duration of disease | ||
| Acute | 40.0% | 0.324 |
| Chronic | 68.6% | |
| Doctor shopping-behavior | ||
| No | 61.7% | 0.146 |
| Yes | 88.9% | |
| Final diagnosis | ||
| Code P (−) | 61.3% | 0.571 |
| Code P (+) | 72.0% | |
| New symptoms | ||
| None | 60.0% | 0.399 |
| Emergence | 73.1% | |
| Past symptoms | ||
| Persistence | 80.0% | 0.025 |
| Disappear | 50.0% | |
|
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| Multivariate analysis | Odds ratio (95% CI) | P-value |
|
| ||
| Age | ||
| ≥65 years | 4.360 (1.16–16.40) | 0.029 |
| <65 years | 1 | |
| Past symptoms | ||
| Persistence | 5.720 (1.51–21.70) | 0.010 |
| Disappear | 1 | |