Research Article
Fasting Blood Glucose and Depressive Mood among Patients with Mental Illness in a Medicaid Managed Care Program
Table 1
Characteristics of the sample.
| | Variable | Lab data available | No lab data | P value |
| | Demographics |
| | N (%)* | | | Gender | | | 0.41 | | Male | 48 (35%) | 42 (40%) | | | Female | 91 (66%) | 64 (60%) | |
| | Age | | | 0.41 | | 18–30 | 1 (1%) | 0 (0%) | | | 31–40 | 14 (10%) | 17 (16%) | | | 41–50 | 42 (30%) | 32 (31%) | | | 50+ | 82 (59%) | 56 (53%) | |
| | Ethnicity | | | 0.06 | | Hispanic | 27 (19%) | 28 (27%) | | | African-American | 56 (40%) | 51 (49%) | | | Caucasian | 49 (35%) | 23 (22%) | | | Other | 7 (5%) | 2 (2%) | |
| | Depression status |
| | Mean (sd) | | | PHQ-9 score | 10.9 (7.4) | 11.1 (6.7) | 0.90 | | N (%)* | | | PHQ-9 Score | | | 0.69 | | ≥10 (depressed) | 80 (57%) | 58 (54%) | | | <10 (not depressed) | 61 (43%) | 49 (46%) | | | PHQ-9 severity level [19] | | | 0.06 | | Minimal (0–4) | 36 (26%) | 20 (19%) | | | Mild (5–9) | 25 (18%) | 29 (27%) | | | Moderate (10–14) | 26 (18%) | 29 (27%) | | | Moderately severe (15–19) | 34 (24%) | 15 (14%) | | | Severe (20–27) | 20 (14%) | 14 (13%) | | | Depression diagnosis
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| 65 (61%) | 42 (39% ) | 0.28 |
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*Some s will vary due to missing data.
**Based on primary care encounter data.
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