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Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2021 Jun 1;83(5):410–416. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000942

Table 1. Demographics, depression status and survival of patients included in the analysis.

	Breast cancer	Colorectal cancer	Gynaecological cancer	Lung cancer	Prostate cancer
Total	8679^a	2807^a	3052^a	4476^a	1579^a
Sex
Female	8679 (100%)	1191 (42%)	3052 (100%)	2113 (47%)	0 (0%)
Male	0 (0%)	1616 (58%)	0 (0%)	2363 (53%)	1579 (100%)
Age at cancer diagnosis [median years, IQR]	58 [49, 66]	65 [58, 72]	61 [51, 69]	68 [61, 74]	67 [62, 72]
SIMD score quintile ^b
1	1488 (17%)	521 (19%)	648 (21%)	1507 (34%)	271 (17%)
2	1591 (18%)	555 (20%)	657 (22%)	1085 (24%)	258 (16%)
3	1584 (18%)	504 (18%)	580 (19%)	714 (16%)	266 (17%)
4	1669 (19%)	498 (18%)	572 (19%)	571 (13%)	345 (22%)
5	2346 (27%)	728 (26%)	595 (19%)	599 (13%)	439 (28%)
Missing	1 (0%)	1 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Initial cancer treatment objective
Curative	6702 (77%)	1998 (71%)	2093 (69%)	1145 (26%)	660 (42%)
Palliative	479 (6%)	572 (20%)	552 (18%)	3132 (70%)	653 (41%)
Missing	1498 (17%)	237 (8%)	407 (13%)	199 (4%)	266 (17%)
Time interval between cancer diagnosis & depression screening [median years, IQR]	2.0 [0.4, 5.2]	1.0 [0.3, 2.5]	1.0 [0.4, 3.0]	0.3 [0.1, 0.9]	2.0 [0.8, 4.5]
Major depression status
Pre-imputation
No major depression	7699 (89%)	2547 (91%)	2654 (87%)	3613 (81%)	1456 (92%)
Major depression	665 (8%)	140 (5%)	273 (9%)	412 (9%)	63 (4%)
Depression status missing	315 (4%)	120 (4%)	125 (4%)	451 (10%)	60 (4%)
*Post-imputation ^c*
No major depression	91%	94%	89%	87%	95%
Major depression	9%	6%	11%	13%	5%
Time from depression screening to death or censoring [median years, IQR]	2.3 [1.6, 3.0]	1.8 [1.2, 2.7]	1.9 [1.2, 2.7]	0.8 [0.4, 1.5]	2.2 [1.7, 3.1]
Died during study period	1036 (12%)	876 (31%)	865 (28%)	3029 (68%)	299 (19%)
Died of cancer during study period	912 (11%)	813 (29%)	816 (27%)	2799 (63%)	257 (16%)

Data are n (%) unless stated otherwise.

11 patients are included in this table twice because they were diagnosed with more than one primary cancer on the same day: 3 had breast & gynaecological cancers, 3 had colorectal & gynaecological cancers, 2 had breast & lung cancers, 1 had breast & colorectal cancers, 1 had colorectal & lung cancers, 1 had colorectal & prostate cancers.

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintile score: 1=most deprived, 5=least deprived.

mean after 20 imputations.