Research Article
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Depressive Symptoms among Chinese Underground Coal Miners
Table 1
Demographic and working characteristics of study subjects.
| Variable | (%) |
| Depressive symptoms | | Yes (CES-D ≥ 16) | 1216 (62.8%) | No (CES-D < 16) | 720 (37.2%) | Age (years) | | ≤30 | 382 (19.7%) | 31–40 | 417 (21.5%) | 41–50 | 942 (48.7%) | >50 | 195 (10.1%) | Marital status | | Single/divorced/widowed/separated | 329 (17.0%) | Married/cohabiting | 1607 (83.0%) | Education | | Junior high school or under | 972 (50.2%) | Senior high school/technical secondary school | 711 (36.7%) | Junior college or above | 253 (13.1%) | Chronic disease | | Yes | 711 (36.7%) | No | 1225 (63.3%) | Job rank | | Head miner | 394 (20.4%) | Staff miner | 1542 (79.6%) | Monthly income (RMB, yuan) | | ≤3000 | 451 (23.3%) | 3001–5000 | 1129 (58.3%) | >5000 | 356 (18.4%) | Weekly working time (hours) | | ≤40 | 519 (26.8%) | >40 | 1417 (73.2%) |
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CES-D: the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
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