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. 2023 Feb 28;274(2):321–333. doi: 10.1007/s00406-023-01567-0

Table 1.

Cohort characteristics

Patients with masculine depression (Ntotal = 81) Patients with non-masculine depression (Ntotal = 82) Healthy control subjects (Ntotal = 176) Patients with masculine vs. patients with non-masculine depression Patients with masculine depression vs. controls Patients with non-masculine depression vs. controls
N M/F SD N M/F SD N M/F SD χ2 or t P χ2 or t P χ2 or t P
% Men 81 56 82 56 176 49 0.0 0.944 1.0 0.319 1.2 0.279
Age (years) 81 36.4 14.1 82 45.7 14.6 176 37.2 13.7  – 4.1  < 0.001  – 0.4 0.684 4.5  < 0.001
Months of employment during the previous year 77 8.1 4.9 76 6.2 5.6 173 8.2 4.9 2.3 0.023  – 0.1 0.894  – 2.7 0.007
Hours of employment per week 77 25.0 17.6 74 19.1 19.0 173 19.0 15.7 2.0 0.049 2.6 0.012 0.0 0.989
% Living in a current partnership 79 48 77 55 176 68 0.6 0.421 9.3 0.002 4.3 0.038
% Married 79 28 80 48 175 27 6.5 0.011 0.0 0.945 9.9 0.002
% Divorced 79 14 78 21 176 14 1.2 0.274 0.0 0.953 1.6 0.207
% At School 79 5 80 1 176 1 1.9 0.210 3.7 0.076 0.0 1.0
% In Vocational training 79 9 80 4 176 2 1.8 0.210 7.4 0.011 1.0 0.380
% At university 79 11 80 8 176 40 0.7 0.401 20.5  < 0.001 27.4  < 0.001
% In an employment relationship 79 51 80 39 176 52 2.3 0.132 0.0 0.874 3.7 0.054
% Self-Employed 79 6 80 6 176 11 0.0 1.0 1.6 0.211 1.6 0.201
% Unemployed 79 13 80 19 176 3 1.1 0.291 9.5 0.004 19.3  < 0.001
% Retired 79 10 80 20 176 3 3.0 0.082 4.7 0.039 19.3  < 0.001
BDI-II score 80 37.3 10.6 81 28.7 10.3 174 3.4 3.8 5.2  < 0.001 27.9  < 0.001 21.5  < 0.001
MDRS-22 score 81 2.6 0.8 82 1.1 0.4 176 0.4 0.4 15.2  < 0.001 24.2  < 0.001 14.7  < 0.001

The table shows the valid number of subjects analyzed (N), means (M) or relative frequencies (F), standard deviation (SD), and the results of χ2 / Fisher and Student's t-tests. BDI-II Beck’s Depression Inventory-II, MDRS-22 Male Depression Rating Scale-22. P < 0.05 in bold