Psychiatric Assessment and Screening for the Elderly in Primary Care: Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Results

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of screen-negative and screen-positive subjects.

	Screened for depression and/or anxiety				value
	Negative		Positive
		%		%
Gender
Male	190	29.1	139	22.4	0.006
Female	463	70.9	481	77.6
Race
Other	127	19.4	108	17.4	0.351
White Non-Hispanic	526	80.6	512	82.6
Has Medicaid
No	470	86.9	454	89.0	0.286
Yes	71	13.1	56	11.0
Lives alone
No	293	46.1	252	41.4	0.095
Yes	343	53.9	357	58.6
Age in years; (, mean, s.d.)	627, 78.02 (9.98)		601, 79.24 (10.01)		0.033

Chi-square tests were used to compare dichotomous variables and -test for age, a continuous variable.