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Table 4 Summary of findings

From: Does digital technology reduce health disparity? Investigating difference of depression stemming from socioeconomic status among Chinese older adults

Individual socioeconomic status

Disparity of depression

Digital technology intervention

Average

Higher

Mean

Median

> 0.5 quantile

Father’s education

NSa

NS

Positive

–b

Self-rated health status during childhood

Positivec

Positive

Increasingd

–

Education

Positive

Positive

Increasing

Strengthen (average)

Weaken (higher)

Income

Positive

Positive

Increasing

Weaken

Hukou

Positive

Positive

Positive

NS

  1. aNS not significant
  2. birreversible SES variables excluded from the interaction analysis
  3. cThe positive effect means that SES exacerbates health disparity, that is, higher SES leads to lower CES-D scores
  4. dThe increasing effect indicates the trend of SES effect on health disparity