Table 2.

Estimated rates of self‐reported clinical diagnosis (conditional on probable depression) and treatment of depression (conditional on self‐reported clinical diagnosis of depression) among research subjects

Group	Outcomes
	Clinical diagnosis of depression (N = 647 participant‐surveys)		Treatment of depression (N = 138 participant‐surveys)
	Estimated rates	P‐Value	Estimated rates	P‐Value
All research subjects	44.3% (39.2‐49.4%)	—	62.0% (54.8‐69.2%)	—
By race
European American	47.4% (41.2‐53.6%)	Ref	63.7% (55.0‐72.5%)	Ref
African American	37.7% (31.1‐44.4%)	0.02	56.1% (40.6‐71.6%)	0.43
By educational attainment
≤High school	38.9% (32.0‐45.9%)	Ref.	60.2% (50.7‐69.7%)	Ref.
>High school	48.3% (41.9‐54.7%)	0.03	66.0% (49.6‐82.6%)	0.59
By employment status
Retired/unemployed	48.6% (42.4‐54.9%)	Ref.	66.5% (56.4‐76.5%)	Ref.
Employed	40.0% (32.3‐45.7%)	0.02	56.3% (43.9‐68.7%)	0.24
By annual primary care visits
At most three	39.0% (33.2‐44.8%)	Ref.	69.7% (58.0‐81.4%)	Ref.
Four or more	49.2% (43.3‐55.1%)	<0.01	55.0% (43.9‐66.2%)	0.10

Research subjects with probable depression had Short‐form 12 mental composite scores ≤48.9.46

Abbreviations: dep, depression; Ref, reference group.