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Table 6 Post hoc analysis of adherence to recommendations based on depression type and severity

From: A tailored intervention to implement guideline recommendations for elderly patients with depression in primary care: a pragmatic cluster randomised trial

 

Intervention (observed in raw data)

Control (observed in raw data)

Estimated differencea between intervention and control group (%) (lower CL (%), upper CL (%)) from final multivariate mixed model

N

Mean (%) (SD (%))

N

Mean (%) (SD (%))

Depressive episode

     

   Mild

15

49 (21)

26

55 (18)

−6 (−18, 6)

   Moderate

16

49 (23)

17

45 (21)

3 (−18, 25)

   Severe

18

49 (17)

22

51 (16)

−4 (−12, 20)

Recurrent depression/dysthymia

42

67 (26)

48

59 (24)

5(−7, 17)

  1. aEstimated difference from final multivariate mixed model including four effect modifiers adjusting for size of municipality, proportion 80+ inhabitants in municipality, and potential effect modifiers with p value <0.3 in univariate analyses