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. 2021 May 13;30(10):2829–2841. doi: 10.1007/s11136-021-02848-8

Table 4.

Coefficient estimates from linear mixed effects regressions for levels of the PCS and the MCS with 95% confidence intervals

Covariate/dependent variable PCS MCS

Risk group:

 RG 1: Participants free of clinically relevant mental disorders (Ref.)

 RG 2: Participants with depression  − 9.39**  − 6.22**
(− 15.07, − 3.70) (− 9.99, − 2.53)
 RG 3: Participants with MCI  − 4.40  − 0.48
(− 8.90, 0.11) (− 3.49, 2.53)
 RG 4: Participants with depression and MCI  − 9.83*  − 9.39**
(− 18.09, − 1.58) (− 14.82, − 3.95)
Age group: 65–74 (Ref.)
 75–85  − 4.24*  − 1.31
(− 8.21, − 0.26) (− 3.94, 1.33)
 86 +   − 9.35**  − 4.50*
(− 15.27, − 3.43) (− 8.45, − 0.55)
Sex: male (Ref.)
 Female 1.14  − 2.45*
(− 2.50, 4.78) (− 4.87, − 0.04)
School education: Low (Ref.)
 Medium  − 0.35 1.71
(− 4.89, 4.19) (− 1.29, 4.70)
 High 1.02 0.54
(− 2.66, 4.69) (− 1.90, 2.98)
Marital status: alone/widowed (Ref.)
 Married/cohabiting 2.56 − 1.53
(− 1.24, 6.36) (− 4.06, 0.99)
Time point: baseline—t0 (Ref.)
 t1 1.29 2.03*
(− 0.26, 2.83) (0.40, 3.65)
 t2 1.07 1.77*
(− 0.55, 2.68) (0.08, 3.47)
Constant 45.09** 58.15**
(39.21, 50.96) (54.20, 62.11)
 Number of observations 280 280
 Number of participants 97 97
 SD of random intercept 7.04 3.82

SD standard deviation

Significance levels: *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01