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Table 4 Percentage of population with mental health problems and physical multimorbidity

From: Prevalence of multimorbidity according to the deprivation level among the elderly in the Basque Country

 

Percentage of population suffering from mental health problems

Physical multimorbidity

Population with mental health problems

Population without mental health problems

%

CI

%

CI

All

22.50%

74.97%

(74.70-75.23)

58.14%

(57.98-58.30)

Men

14.47%

79.16%

(78.68-79.63)

61.28%

(61.04-61.51)

Women

28.45%

73.39%

(73.07-73.71)

55.36%

(55.13-55.59)

Age group (years)

65-69

18.16%

63.27%

(62.63-63.92)

46.59%

(46.28-46.90)

70-74

19.48%

72.16%

(71.49-72.82)

56.71%

(56.35-57,07)

75-79

22.78%

78.87%

(78.33-79.41)

64.69%

(64.35-65.03)

80-84

26.95%

81.53%

(80.99-82.06)

69.08%

(68.69-69.46)

85+

28.60%

79.12%

(78.56-79.68)

60.90%

(60.48-61.33)

Deprivation Index

DI1

21.16%

71.67%

(71.05-72.30)

51.67%

(51.31-52.03)

DI2

22.13%

73.29%

(72.69-73.90)

57.44%

(57.08-57.80)

DI3

22.69%

75.89%

(75.30-76.48)

59.92%

(59.55-60.29)

DI4

22.44%

75.75%

(75.17-76.33)

60.29%

(59.93-60.65)

DI5

24.25%

78.09%

(77.53-78.65)

62.04%

(61.67-62.41)

  1. CI Confidence Interval (95%).
  2. Physical multimorbidity was considered the concurrence of two or more chronic non-mental diseases in the same person.
  3. They were considered as Mental health problems: Depression; Anxiety & other neurotic, stress related & somatoform disorders; Alcohol problems; Dementia; Schizophrenia, affective psychosis or bipolar disorder; Intellectual disability.