The Relationship between Locomotive Syndrome and Depression in Community-Dwelling Elderly People

Table 4

Comparison of characteristics between the nondepression and depression groups.

	Nondepression	Depression	p value
Participants (%)	177 (72.5)	67 (27.5)
Male (%)	66 (35.68)	13 (22.03)	0.8319
Age (years; mean (SD))	68.11 (6.43)	68.82 (6.40)	0.3937
Height (cm; mean (SD))	154.85 (13.57)	156.04 (8.08)	0.6562
Body weight (kg; mean (SD))	57.43 (11.22)	57.40 (10.03)	0.9837
Body mass index; (kg/m^2; mean (SD))	23.63 (3.38)	23.59 (3.21)	0.9360
GLFS-25 (points; mean (SD))	7.28 (7.81)	12.27 (11.36)	<0.0001
LS	19 (10.27)	15 (25.42)	0.0190

SD: standard deviation
GLFS-25: Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale
LS: locomotive syndrome
Pearson's chi-square test
Wilcoxon signed-rank test
Student’s t-test.