Table 3.
Summary of the eye health of those with and without significant depressive symptoms
| Eye health | GDS-15 score <6 |
GDS-15 score ≥6 |
Total | Univariable logistic regression analysis | |||
| N | OR | 95% CI | P value | ||||
| Ocular diagnosis,* n (%) | Not entered into regression analysis† | ||||||
| AMD wet | 117 (59.4) | 80 (40.6) | 197 | ||||
| AMD dry | 259 (64.6) | 142 (35.4) | 401 | ||||
| Glaucoma | 104 (63.0) | 61 (37) | 165 | ||||
| Cataract | 95 (70.4) | 40 (29.6) | 135 | ||||
| Diabetic eye disease | 59 (48.0) | 64 (52.0) | 123 | ||||
| Other eye condition | 157 (47.9) | 171 (52.1) | 328 | ||||
| Data missing | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 2 | ||||
| Total number of eye conditions, n (%) | Not entered into regression analysis‡ | ||||||
| 1 | 381 (56) | 299 (44.0) | 680 | ||||
| 2 | 153 (58.8) | 107 (41.2) | 260 | ||||
| 3 | 32 (72.7) | 12 (27.3) | 44 | ||||
| 4 | 2 (66.7) | 1 (33.3) | 3 | ||||
| 5 | 0 (0) | 1 (100) | 1 | ||||
| Data missing | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 2 | ||||
| Total number of eye conditions (collapsed), n (%) | |||||||
| 1§ | 381 (56.0) | 299 (44.0) | 680 | ||||
| 2 | 153 (58.8) | 107 (41.2) | 260 | 988 | 0.89 | 0.67 to 1.19 | 0.123 |
| 3 or more | 34 (70.8) | 14 (29.2) | 48 | 0.52 | 0.28 to 1.00 | ||
| Data missing | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 2 | ||||
| Corrected binocular visual acuity (LogMar), median (IQR) | 0.60 (0.40, 0.94) | 0.70 (0.50, 1.00) | 0.67 (0.40, 1.0) | 990 | 1.01 | 0.99 to 1.03 | 0.568 |
| Data missing, n (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Years since vision loss, median (IQR) | 5.5 (2.2, 12.0) | 5.0 (2.1, 10.2) | 5.2 (2.2, 11.1) | 974 | 0.99 | 0.99 to 1.01 | 0.818 |
| Data missing, n (%) | 13 (81.25) | 3 (18.75) | 16 | ||||
*All ocular diagnoses—participants may have had more than one.
†Not entered due to high correlation with number of eye conditions.
‡Collapsed categories entered instead.
§Reference category.
AMD, Age-related Macular Degeneration; GDS, Geriatric Depression Scale.