Quality of Life of Sardinian Immigrants in Buenos Aires and of People Living in Italy and Sardinia: Does the Kind of Care have a Role for People with Depression?

Table 4: Perceived quality of life in the different samples of persons with a depressive episode at the time of the interview (positivity at the PHQ9 [score >10 with criteria for a depressive episode with verification vs. ANTAS-SCID] in the immigrant sample; major depressive episode at ANTAS-SCID in the sardinian and italian samples).

	Sardinians in Argentina (20)	AIFA Sardinian sub-sample (7)	Aifa Total sample * (55)	Comparison with Sardinians Anova 1 way df 1,25,26	Comparison with total Anova 1 way df 1,73,74
SF-12 Mean±SD Persons with current depressive episode	27.10±5.81	30.3±6.13	29.20±5.1	F=1.532 P=0.227	F=2.362 P=0.128
Weight attributable (“attributable burden”) to the disorder in lowering the quality of life	11.2±2.23	3.50±2.20	4.33±1.22	F=74.59 P<0.0001	F=288.9 P<0.0001

*Carta et al. 2011