Subthreshold Depression and Clinically Significant Depression in an Italian Population of 70–74-Year-Olds: Prevalence and Association with Perceptions of Self

Table 3

Multinomial logistic regression for identifying factors associated with depressive status (reference group: noD).

	SD versus noD	D versus noD
	RRR (95% CI)	RRR (95% CI)
Age, years	1.08 (0.95–1.24)	1.08 (0.87–1.35)
Gender
Male	1	1
Female	(1.75–4.16)	(1.99–11.50)
Education, years
≤5 years	1	1
>5 years	0.94 (0.59–1.49)	2.12 (1.00–4.49)
Marital status
Coupled	1	1
Single/uncoupled	1.11 (0.83–1.50)	0.97 (0.59–1.57)
Living situation
Living with spouse and/or others	1	1
Living alone	1.13 (0.92–1.39)	1.17 (0.84–1.63)
Primary lifetime occupation
Blue collar worker	1	1
Housewife	0.82 (0.48–1.40)	1.18 (0.54–2.55)
White collar worker	1.29 (0.80–2.08)	0.71 (0.30–1.70)
Comorbidity Index	1.02 (0.90–1.16)	1.02 (0.83–1.25)
MMSE total score	0.96 (0.88–1.05)	0.92 (0.81–1.06)
CDT total score	0.97 (0.87–1.08)	0.89 (0.77–1.04)
Self-perception of health status
Poor	1	1
Fair	1.73 (0.28–10.4)	0.40 (0.77–2.08)
Good	0.99 (0.16–6.08)	(0.02–0.75)
Self-perception of mental age
Equal to actual age	1	1
Younger than actual age	0.81 (0.52–1.25)	1.56 (0.72–3.38)
Older than actual age	1.93 (0.90–4.15)	(1.42–12.76)
Self-perception of physical age
Equal to actual age	1	1
Younger than actual age	1.38 (0.87–2.17)	1.44 (0.61–3.38)
Older than actual age	(1.54–6.08)	2.14 (0.70–6.52)
Satisfaction with relationships with family
Satisfied	1	1
Not satisfied	(1.09–2.56)	(1.70–4.53)
Satisfaction with relationships with friends
Satisfied	1	1
Not satisfied	1.04 (0.78–1.39)	(1.28–2.56)
Stress score	(1.05–1.39)	1.12 (0.88–1.43)
Feeling score	0.97 (0.90–1.05)	1.00 (0.87–1.15)

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