Research Article
The Validity of the WHO-5 as an Early Screening for Apathy in an Elderly Population
Table 1
Participant characteristics: sociodemographic and health status variables.
| | | Total sample, |
| | Age: mean (SD) | 74.6 (7.1) | | Range | 65–95 | | Gender, (%) | | | Male | 73 (38.2) | | Female | 118 (61.8) | | Marital status, (%) | | | Single | 18 (9.4) | | Married | 98 (51.3) | | Partnered (other than married) | 2 (1.0) | | Separated/divorced | 5 (2.6) | | Widowed | 68 (35.6) | | Education, (%) | | | Primary school | 105 (55.0) | | Secondary school and higher | 39 (20.4) | | Less than primary school | 47 (24.6) | | Self-perceived health, (%) | | | Healthy | 126 (66.0) | | Unhealthy | 65 (34.0) | | Self-reported depression (%) | 18.8 | | GDS-15 ≥ 5 (%) | 22.5 | | WHO-5 ≤ 50 (%) | 24.6 |
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