Research Article
Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Permanent Atrial Fibrillation: Prevalence and Associated Factors
Table 4
Association between patients’ characteristics and depression levels.
| Characteristics | Low levels, N (%) | Moderate levels, N (%) | High levels, N (%) | value |
| Gender | | | | | Male | 77 (65.8%) | 17 (14.5%) | 23 (19.7%) | 0.808 | Female | 31 (60.8%) | 9 (17.6%) | 11 (21.6%) | Age | | | | | ≤60 | 47 (74.6%) | 8 (12.7%) | 8 (12.7%) | 0.037 | 61–70 | 34 (66.7%) | 9 (17.6%) | 8 (15.7%) | >70 | 27 (50.0%) | 9 (16.7%) | 18 (33.3%) | Status | | | | | Married | 80 (64.5%) | 18 (14.5%) | 26 (21.0%) | 0.814 | Single | 28 (63.6%) | 8 (18.2%) | 8 (18.2%) | Educational level | | | | | Primary | 54 (61.4%) | 12 (13.6%) | 22 (25.0%) | 0.534 | Secondary | 39 (69.6%) | 9 (16.1%) | 8 (14.3%) | University | 15 (62.5%) | 5 (20.8%) | 4 (16.7%) | Job | | | | | Employee | 45 (70.3%) | 7 (10.9%) | 12 (18.8%) | 0.355 | Pensioner/household | 63 (60.6%) | 19 (18.3%) | 22 (21.2%) | Place of residence | | | | | Attica | 72 (63.7%) | 21 (18.6%) | 20 (17.7%) | 0.195 | Other places | 36 (65.5%) | 5 (9.1%) | 14 (25.5%) | Number of children | | | | | None | 14 (73.7%) | 3 (15.8%) | 2 (10.5%) | 0.567 | One | 24 (68.6%) | 3 (8.6%) | 8 (22.9%) | More than one | 70 (61.4%) | 20 (17.5%) | 24 (21.1%) | Other diseases | | | | | Yes | 46 (63.9%) | 9 (12.5%) | 17 (23.6%) | 0.489 | No | 62 (64.6%) | 17 (17.7%) | 17 (17.7%) | Informed of the state of their health | | | | | Very | 66 (75.9%) | 6 (6.9%) | 15 (17.2%) | <0.001 | Enough | 32 (52.5%) | 18 (29.5%) | 11 (18.0%) | Less/not at all | 10 (50.0%) | 2 (10.0%) | 8 (40.0%) | Years having the disease | | | | | <2 | 56 (68.3%) | 15 (18.3%) | 11 (13.4%) | <0.001 | 2–5 | 31 (72.1%) | 8 (18.6%) | 4 (9.3%) | 6–10 | 21 (48.8%) | 3 (7.0%) | 19 (44.2%) | Relations with nursing staff | | | | | Very good | 84 (68.3%) | 18 (14.6%) | 21 (17.1%) | 0.309 | Good | 17 (51.5%) | 7 (21.2%) | 9 (27.3%) | Moderate/bad | 7 (58.3%) | 1 (8.3%) | 4 (33.3%) | Relations with medical staff | | | | | Very good | 82 (70.1%) | 17 (14.5%) | 18 (15.4%) | 0.041 | Good | 19 (46.3%) | 9 (22.0%) | 13 (31.7%) | Moderate/bad | 7 (70.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 3 (30.0%) |
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Low-level score: 0–7; moderate-level score: 8–10; high-level score: 11–21.
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