Annals of General Psychiatry

Table 3 Spearman’s correlation between daily nutrients, energy intake, and dietary diversity score

From: Depression is related to dietary diversity score in women: a cross-sectional study from a developing country

Dietary diversity score
Nutrients	r*	p value**	Nutrients	r*	p value**
Energy (kcal)	0.2	< 0.001	Vitamin D (µg)	0.2	< 0.001
Protein (g)	0.4	< 0.001	Vitamin K (µg)	0.3	< 0.001
Carbohydrate (g)	0.2	< 0.001	Vitamin C (mg)	0.2	< 0.001
Fat (g)	0.2	< 0.001	Folate (µg)	0.4	< 0.001
Protein (% energy)	0.28	< 0.001	Thiamin (mg)	0.3	< 0.001
Carbohydrate (% energy)	− 0.1	0.05	Riboflavin (mg)	0.4	< 0.001
Fat (% energy)	0.03	0.52	Niacin (mg)	0.3	< 0.001
SFA (g)	0.2	< 0.001	Pyridoxine (mg)	0.3	< 0.001
MUFA (g)	0.2	0.001	Cobalamin (µg)	0.3	< 0.001
PUFA (g)	0.1	0.006	Iron (mg)	0.3	< 0.001
DHA (g)	0.1	0.004	Zinc (mg)	0.4	< 0.001
EPA (g)	− 0.5	0.3	Magnesium (mg)	0.3	< 0.001
Vitamin A (RE)	0.4	< 0.001	Selenium (mg)	0.2	< 0.001
Vitamin E (mg)	0.1	0.01

SFA saturated fatty acid, MUFA monounsaturated fatty acid, PUFA poly unsaturated fatty acid, DHA docosahexaenoic acid, EPA eicosapentaenoic acid
* r is Spearman’s correlation coefficient
** p value is for Spearman’s correlation test, p < 0.05 is statistically significant

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