International Journal of Endocrinology

Research Article

The Reach of Depression Screening Preceding Treatment: Are There Patterns of Patients' Self-Selection?

Table 2

Demographic and clinical variables in patients who accepted treatment and those who did not.


	Descriptives				Multivariate
	Participating ()	Not participating ()			Participating = reference
	Mean ± SD (%)	Mean ± SD (%)		Cohen’s d	OR (95% CI)

Gender
(female = reference)				N/A	1.592 (.833–3.041)	.159
Age (years)					.979 (.923–1.039)	.482
Education (years)					1.205 (1.053–1.379)	.007
Professional status
(active = reference)			.022	N/A	3.241 (1.530–6.865)	.002
Socioeconomic status
(good = reference)
Average				N/A	.864 (.450–1.658)	.660
Poor					.787 (.311–1.991)	.613
Family status
(married = reference)				N/A	.812 (.399–1.654)	.567
Acute stress				N/A	N/A
Chronic stress
(yes = reference)				N/A	N/A
BMI (kg/m²)			.024		.910 (.850–.975)	.007
HbA1C (%)					1.246 (.972–1.597)
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)					N/A
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)					1.112 (.803–1.539)
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)					.549 (.183–1.645)
Triglycerides (mmol/L)			.023		.838 (.692–1.016)