Visual impairment and depression: Age-specific prevalence, associations with vision loss, and relation to life satisfaction

Table 2 The point prevalence of depressive disorders in the visual impairment population by age and gender

Disorders	Cases/total	Total (n = 736) (95%CI)	Women (n = 403) (95%CI)	Men (n = 333) (95%CI)
Major depression
18-35 yr	18/157	11.5 (6.9, 17.5)	12.5 (6.4, 21.3)	10.1 (4.2, 19.8)
36-50 yr	29/186	15.6 (10.7, 21.6)	17.8 (10.9, 26.7)	12.9 (6.6, 22.0)
51-65 yr	14/200	7.0 (3.9, 11.5)	7.6 (3.3, 14.3)	6.4 (2.4, 13.4)
≥ 66 yr	8/193	4.2 (1.8, 8.0)	5.6 (2.1, 11.7)	2.4 (0.3, 8.2)
P value		0.003b	0.05a	0.08
Other depression
18-35 yr	7/157	4.5 (1.8, 9.0)	4.6 (1.3, 11.2)	4.4 (0.9, 12.2)
36-50 yr	8/186	4.3 (1.9, 8.3)	5.0 (1.6, 11.2)	3.5 (0.7, 10.0)
51-65 yr	8/200	4.0 (1.7, 7.7)	3.8 (1.0, 9.4)	4.3 (1.2, 10.5)
≥ 66 yr	12/193	6.2 (3.3, 10.6)	5.6 (2.1, 11.7)	7.1 (2.6, 14.7)
P value		0.76	0.95	0.75
Any depression
18-35 yr	25/157	15.9 (10.6, 22.6)	17.1 (9.9, 26.6)	14.5 (7.2, 25.0)
36-50 yr	37/186	19.9 (14.4, 26.4)	22.8 (15.0, 32.2)	16.5 (9.3, 26.1)
51-65 yr	22/200	11.0 (7.0, 16.2)	11.3 (6.0, 18.9)	10.6 (5.2, 18.7)
≥ 66 yr	20/193	10.3 (6.5, 15.6)	11.1 (5.9, 18.6)	9.4 (4.2, 17.7)
P value		0.07	0.59	0.16

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.