Table 2 The public’s definition of depressive symptoms as indication of a psychiatric illness, depending on type of vignette (multinomial logit regression)
From: Perception of depressive symptoms by the Sardinian public: results of a population study
Predicted percentages | Probability change | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Without context | Death of spouse | Unfaithful partner | Job loss | Change 1-2b | Change 1-3b | Change 1-4b | Change 2-3b | Change 2-4b | Change 3-4b | |
(N=292)a | (N=293)a | (N=281)a | (N=281)a | |||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
Psychiatric illness | 28 | 19 | 15 | 23 | -9 (-16,-2) | -13 (-20,-6) | -6 (-13,1) | -4 (-10,2) | 3 (-3,10) | 7 (1,14) |
No psychiatric illness | 56 | 69 | 74 | 63 | 13 (5,21) | 18 (11,26) | 7 (-1,16) | 5 (-2,13) | -6 (-14,2) | -11 (-19,-3) |
Don’t know | 16 | 12 | 10 | 14 | -4 (-10,1) | -5 (-11,1) | 2 (-7,4) | -1 (-6,4) | 3 (-3,8) | 4 (-2,9) |