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Published in final edited form as: J Appl Gerontol. 2021 May 14;41(3):680–689. doi: 10.1177/07334648211012802

Table 3.

Association between Mental Health Service Use and Predisposing, Enabling and Mental Health Need Factors

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4
OR [95% CI] p OR [95% CI] p OR [95% CI] p OR [95% CI] p
Predisposing factors
Gender
 Male (Reference)
 Female 1.06 [.61, 1.84] .84 1.03 [.62, 1.73] .90 .99 [.58, 1.68] .96 1.09 [.65, 1.81] .75
Age
 60–64 (Reference)
 65–74 .58 [.34, .97] .04 .60 [.36, .99] .05 .60 [.35, 1.02] .06 .56 [.34, .93] .03
 75+ .52 [.29, .94] .03 .55 [.30, 1.00] .05 .53 [.28, .97] .04 .50 [.28, .90] .02
Omnibus test (p-value) .09 .12 .12 .14
Race/Ethnicity
 White (Reference)
 Black .36 [.11, 1.15] .08 .28 [.10, .78] .02 .27 [.09, .84] .02 .32 [.07, 1.47] .14
 Asian .15 [.10, .22] <.01 .06 [.03, .11] <.01 .06 [.04, .10] <.01 .08 [.05, .14] <.01
 Latinx .35 [.23, .54] <.01 .20 [.13, .30] <.01 .17 [.11, .26] <.01 .34 [.22, .53] <.01
Omnibus test (p-value) <.01 <.01 <.01 <.01
Education
 <HS (Reference)
 HS, GED or more 1.27 [.88, 1.85] .20 1.33 [.88, 1.99] .17 1.33 [.87, 2.05] .19 1.27 [.87, 1.85] .21
Mental Health Need
Paykel
 Not triggered (Reference)
 Triggered 1.24 [.54, 2.87] .62 1.17 [.51, 2.73] .71 1.24 [.54, 2.82] .62 1.25 [.54, 2.90] .60
GAD-7 Score 1.12 [1.04, 1.22] <.01 .98 [.92, 1.04] .43 1.12 [1.04, 1.21] <.01 1.12 [1.04, 1.22] <.01
GDS score 1.05 [1.00, 1.10] .04 1.05 [.99, 1.11] .08 .89 [.82, .97] <.01 1.04 [.99, 1.10] .11
PC-PTSD
 0 symptoms (Reference)
 1+ symptoms 2.11 [1.42, 3.14] <.01 2.09 [1.42, 3.08] <.01 2.09 [1.39, 3.14] <.01 1.46 [.71, 3.01] .30
Enabling Factors
MoCA score .96 [.91, 1.00] .06 .96 [.91, 1.00] .05 .95 [.91, 1.00] .06 .96 [.91, 1.00] .06
Interactions
Interaction with Anxiety
 GAD-7 Score x Black 1.09 [.98, 1.21] .12
 GAD-7 Score x Asian 1.23 [1.14, 1.34] <.01
 GAD-7 Score x Latinx 1.16 [1.09, 1.24] <.01
Omnibus test (p-value) <.01
Interaction with depression
 GDS-15 Score x Black 1.09 [.96, 1.24] .17
 GDS-15 Score x Asian 1.24 [1.14, 1.35] <.01
 GDS-15 Score x Latinx 1.23 [1.07, 1.41] <.01
Omnibus test (p-value) <.01
Interaction with PC-PTSD
 1+ symptoms x Black 1.30 [.39, 4.28] .67
 1+ symptoms x Asian 2.88 [1.29, 6.41] <.01
 1+ symptoms x Latinx 1.19 [.45, 3.17] .73
Omnibus test (p-value) .01

Note. OR = Odds ratio; CI = Confidence interval; PC-PTSD = Primary Care PTSD 4-item Screen (Cameron & Gusman, 2003); GAD-7 = Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (Spitzer et al., 2006); GDS-15 = Geriatric Depression Scale 15-item (Sheikh & Yesavage, 1986); MoCA = Montreal Cognitive Assessment (Nasreddine et al., 2005); HS = High school; GED = General Education Development test.