Research Article
Predictors of Treatments Acceptable to Patients for Late-Life Depression
Table 1
Characteristics of the study sample
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| | Age | | | Mean | 71.9 yrs | | Range | 60–93 yrs | | Gender | | | Males | (40.6) | | Females | (59.4) | | Marital status | | | Married | (57.1) | | Widowed | (20.2) | | Divorced | (15.7) | | Single, never married | (5.7) | | Other | (1.3) | | Employment status | | | Retired | (65.7) | | Employed | (21.9) | | Disabled | (6.1) | | Homemaker | (4.8) | | Unemployed | (1.5) | | Education | | | <12 yrs | (5.7) | | 12–15 yrs | (44.4) | | ≥16 yrs | (49.9) | | Medical visits past 3 months | | | None | (21.9) | | 1–3 | (58.7) | | 4–6 | (13.7) | | >6 | (5.7) | | Medical insurance* | | | Medicare | (79.1) | | Private | (58.9) | | Medicaid | (12.6) | | Other | (17.2) | | None | (0.6) | | Religious beliefs | | | Strong | (36.5) | | Average | (41.7) | | Weak | (10.6) | | None | (11.2) | | Religious services attended | | | >1/week | (8.8) | | 1/week | (30.6) | | 1-2/month | (13.3) | | 1-2/year | (13.6) | | Almost never | (33.7) | | Number of chronic diseases+ | | | 0 | (17.4) | | 1 | (27.3) | | 2 | (26.7) | | 3 | (13.5) | | ≥4 | (15.1) | | General health rating | | | Excellent | (8.1) | | Very good | (31.0) | | Good | (41.7) | | Fair | (16.9) | | Poor | (2.3) |
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Disease prevalence: arthritis (45.0), hypertension (42.4), diabetes (19.1), thyroid disease (17.6), nonskin cancer (13.5), asthma/bronchitis (11.8), heart attack (8.4), heart failure (6.3), angina (6.3), and stroke (5.9).
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