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Table 1 Demographic details of the sample, including number (and Percentage) of patients reporting each illness

From: Pain severity predicts depressive symptoms over and above individual illnesses and multimorbidity in older adults

 

Mean (Standard Deviation)

Number (Proportion)

Age

75.46 (7.4)

 

Gender

 

563/1264 Male (44.5%)

Marital status

 

718/1239 marrieda (57.9%)

Respiratory disease

 

217/1241 (17.5%)

Heart condition

 

358/1241 (28.8%)

Diabetes

 

238/1241 (19.2%)

Vascular disease

 

125/1240 (10.1%)

Neurological condition

 

71/1241 (5.7%)

Arthritis

 

622/1241 (50.1%)

Kidney or urinary tract disease

 

106/1241 (8.5%)

Liver disease

 

26/1241 (2.1%)

Cancer

 

169/1241 (13.6%)

Infectious disease

 

23/1241 (1.9%)

Osteoporosis

 

253/1241 (20.4%)

Chronic pain

 

227/1241 (18.3%)

Multi-morbidity

 

698/1239 (56.3%)

Depression (GDS)

2.54 (2.7)

255/1136 > 5 on GDS (22.4%)

Pain level

2.04 (2.6)

466/1216 ≥ 4/10 on VAS (38%)

  1. Key: GDS Geriatric Depression Scale, VAS visual analogue scale; amarried includes married or de facto
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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