Depressive Symptoms in Individuals after Stroke in a Home-Based Rehabilitation Setting

Table 2

Preliminary analyses of potential predictor variables for inclusion in regression model.

Variables	Depressive symptom groups		Independent samples -tests
	PHQ-9 0–9	PHQ-9 ≥ 10
Mean age, years ± SD	70.5 ± 12.7	63.4 ± 13.7	5.032	0.001
Time post stroke, days ± SD	81.1 ± 206.2	104.8 ± 141.3	−1.063	0.288
FIM, score ± SD	105.8 ± 17.0	99.4 ± 20.1	3.218	0.001
RNLI, score ± SD	15.9 ± 4.2	12.9 ± 4.8	5.233	0.001
			Chi-square test of independence
Gender, males	428	45	0.781	0.377
Referral source,			8.746	0.013
Acute care	266	27
Inpatient rehab	402	39
Outpatient Rehab/CCAC/community	127	26
Unknown	0	0
Marital status,			4.475	0.215
Single	84	13
Married	484	59
Divorced/separated	41	6
Widowed	130	8
Type of stroke,			1.757	0.415
Ischemic	600	75
Hemorrhagic	104	9
Unknown	93	8

Note. CCAC = community care access centre; FIM = Functional Independence Measure; RNLI = Reintegration to Normal Living Index.