Table 2

Results of GEE models predicting major depression, Canada, 2002/2003–2010/2011

	Crude model		Model 2		Model 3
	B	95% CI	B	95% CI	B	95% CI
Fruit and vegetable consumption	−0.03	−0.05 to −0.01	−0.03	−0.05 to −0.01	0.001	−0.03 to 0.04
Age			−0.02	−0.03 to −0.01	−0.02	−0.03 to −0.02
Sex*			0.60	0.43 to 0.77	0.65	0.43 to 0.87
History of depression			1.42	1.24 to 1.61	1.22	1.02 to 1.43
SES† 2			−0.46	−0.72 to −0.21	−0.30	−0.72 to 0.12
3			−0.51	−0.71 to −0.34	−0.38	−0.66 to −0.11
4			−0.47	−0.79 to −0.14	−0.41	−0.77 to −0.05
Education‡			0.22	0.12 to 0.31	0.22	0.15 to 0.29
Chronic disease			0.10	−0.07 to 0.28	0.13	−0.07 to 0.33
Binge drinking			0.17	−0.21 to 0.55	0.07	−0.34 to 0.49
Obesity					0.22	0.08 to 0.36
Social support					−0.02	−0.03 to −0.002
Smoking–daily					0.44	0.20 to 0.67
Smoking–occasional					0.27	0.06 to 0.48
Energy expenditure					−0.02	−0.04 to 0.01

*Reference category=male.
†SES operationalised as quartile of income/LICO ratio, with the lowest quartile as the reference category.
‡Reference category=no postsecondary.
GEE, generalised estimating equation; LICO, low income cut-off; SES, socioeconomic status.