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Table 6 Association between GPs' awareness of depressive symptomatology and self-reported utilization of prescription antidepressants in all P(+) patients (logistic regression)

From: General practitioners’ awareness of depressive symptomatology is not associated with quality of life in heart failure patients – cross-sectional results of the observational RECODE-HF Study

Variable

P-Value

Odds Ratio [95% CI]

GPs' awareness of depressive symptomatology (reference: unawareness)

<0.001

2.845 [1.758; 4.604]

Education level (reference: Primary education)

0.670

 

 Secondary education

0.372

0.765 [0.425;1.377]

 Tertiary education

0.868

0.919 [0.338; 2.499]

Age

0.306

0.989 [0.968; 1.010]

Gender (reference: male)

0.136

1.451 [0.889; 2.367]

NYHA Class (reference: NYHA Class 1)

0.421

 

 NYHA Class 2

0.545

0.821 [0.433; 1.557]

 NYHA Class 3

0.217

0.642 [0.318; 1.297]

 NYHA Class 4

0.160

0.408 [0.117; 1.424]

PHQ-9 Score

0.001

1.108 [1.045; 1.174]

Constant

0.012

0.089

  1. N = 525; Nagelkerkes R 2 = 0.141