Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants
| Moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms but not in treatment | Full sample | |||
| n=124 | n=935 | |||
| n | % or mean | n | % or mean | |
| Demographic variables | ||||
| Age mean (SD) | 124 | 40.2 (SD:14.9) range: 19–91 | 935 | 44.1 (SD: 13.9) range: 18–91 |
| Female | 74 | 59.7 | 617 | 66.0 |
| Race | ||||
| White/Caucasian | 98 | 79.0 | 785 | 84.0 |
| Black/African American | 8 | 6.5 | 48 | 5.1 |
| Asian | 3 | 2.4 | 35 | 3.7 |
| Latino/Hispanic | 6 | 4.8 | 31 | 3.3 |
| Multiracial | 7 | 5.7 | 24 | 2.6 |
| Other | 2 | 1.6 | 12 | 1.3 |
| Education | ||||
| Less than high school | 3 | 2.4 | 27 | 2.9 |
| High school graduate/equivalent | 20 | 16.1 | 123 | 13.2 |
| Some college | 34 | 27.4 | 250 | 26.7 |
| 2-year degree | 9 | 7.3 | 111 | 11.9 |
| 4-year degree | 50 | 40.3 | 314 | 33.6 |
| Master’s degree | 8 | 6.5 | 90 | 9.6 |
| Doctorate | 0 | 0.0 | 20 | 2.1 |
| Employment | ||||
| Disabled | 6 | 4.8 | 65 | 7.0 |
| Homemaker | 5 | 4.0 | 38 | 4.1 |
| Retired | 8 | 6.5 | 86 | 9.2 |
| Student | 5 | 4.0 | 37 | 4.0 |
| Unemployed and looking | 16 | 12.9 | 48 | 5.1 |
| Working full-time | 58 | 46.8 | 478 | 51.1 |
| Working part-time | 26 | 21.0 | 183 | 19.6 |
| Country | ||||
| UK | 71 | 57.3 | 569 | 60.9 |
| USA | 53 | 42.7 | 366 | 39.1 |
| Insurance | ||||
| Affordable Care Act/Obamacare | 5 | 4.0 | 21 | 2.3 |
| Medicare/Medicaid | 14 | 11.3 | 81 | 8.7 |
| National healthcare insurance | 43 | 34.7 | 364 | 38.9 |
| Private health insurance | 25 | 20.2 | 237 | 25.4 |
| Other | 1 | 0.8 | 17 | 1.8 |
| Uninsured | 36 | 29.0 | 215 | 23.0 |
| Clinical variables | ||||
| PHQ-9 score | 124 | 15.2 (SD: 4.6) range: 10–27 | 935 | 8.4 (SD: 7.0) range: 0–27 |
| Lifetime depression | 67 | 54.0 | 521 | 55.7 |
| Family history of depression | 74 | 59.7 | 552 | 59.0 |
| Lifetime antidepressant treatment | 64 | 51.6 | 537 | 57.4 |
| Lifetime psychotherapy | 80 | 64.5 | 595 | 63.6 |
| Current antidepressant treatment | 0 | 0.0 | 339 | 36.3 |
| Current psychotherapy | 0 | 0.0 | 155 | 16.6 |
| Treatment preference | ||||
| Antidepressants | 48 | 38.7 | 339 | 36.3 |
| Psychotherapy | 76 | 61.3 | 596 | 63.7 |
| Unwilling to take antidepressants even if the response rate were 100% | 20 | 16.1 | 95 | 10.2 |
PHQ-9, Patient Health Questionnaire-9.