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

Table 3.

Regression analyses to predict groups of patients with masculine depression, patients with non-masculine depression, and healthy controls and Male Depression Rating Scale 22 scores

Health services contacts, GGT activity, and working hours Sex BDI-II Age
N B Wald / T P B Wald / T P B Wald / T P B Wald / T P
Patients with masculine depression vs. patients with non-masculine depression
Health services contacts (Physical complaints) 159 0.038 0.6 0.424 0.570 2.1 0.145 0.092 21.3  < 0.001*  – 0.052 15.7  < 0.001*
Health services contacts (Mental complaints) 159  – 0.025 4.3 0.038* 0.694 3.0 0.083 0.105 23.9  < 0.001*  – 0.051 15.0  < 0.001*
GGT activity 161 0.015 3.4 0.066 0.466 1.3 0.246 0.094 21.8  < 0.001*  – 0.055 17.0  < 0.001*
Months of employment during the previous year 152 0.080 4.7 0.030* 0.682 2.9 0.090 0.101 22.5  < 0.001*  – 0.040 9.1 0.003*
Hours of employment per week 150 0.027 5.9 0.015* 0.514 1.6 0.210 0.114 24.7  < 0.001*  – 0.042 9.6 0.002*
MDRS-22 scores
Health services contacts (Physical complaints) 159 0.025 1.5 0.141 0.296 2.2 0.032* 0.039 6.5  < 0.001*  – 0.018  – 4.2  < 0.001*
Health services contacts (Mental complaints) 159  – 0.012  – 2.8 0.005* 0.328 2.4 0.016* 0.045 7.4  < 0.001*  – 0.018  – 4.0  < 0.001*
GGT Activity 161 0.005 1.9 0.065 0.251 1.8 0.075 0.040 6.7  < 0.001*  – 0.019  – 4.2  < 0.001*
Months of employment during the previous year 152 0.024 1.9 0.063 0.326 2.3 0.021* 0.041 6.6  < 0.001*  – 0.014  – 2.9 0.004*
Hours of employment per week 150 0.007 2.0 0.053 0.265 1.9 0.059 0.044 7.0  < 0.001*  – 0.014  – 3.0 0.003*
Patients with masculine depression vs. controls
Health services contacts (Physical complaints) 255 0.459 30.9  < 0.001* 0.417 1.9 0.173  – 0.007 0.4 0.548
Health services contacts (Mental complaints) 255 1.599 26.3  < 0.001* 0.299 0.4 0.525  – 0.017 0.9 0.338
GGT activity 257 0.005 1.6 0.206 0.194 0.5 0.483  – 0.007 0.5 0.499
Months of employment during the previous year 250  – 0.004 0.0 0.874 0.296 1.2 0.284  – 0.002 0.0 0.853
Hours of employment per week 250 0.022 6.1 0.014* 0.169 0.4 0.554  – 0.004 0.2 0.669
Patients with non-masculine depression vs. controls
Health services contacts (Physical complaints) 255 0.259 14.1  < 0.001* 0.080 0.1 0.788 0.035 11.0 0.001*
Health services contacts (Mental complaints) 255 2.089 29.5  < 0.001* 0.143 0.1 0.802 0.043 5.1 0.024*
GGT activity 258  – 0.001 0.1 0.774 0.183 0.4 0.521 0.042 17.4  < 0.001*
Months of employment during the previous year 249  – 0.074 7.5 0.006* 0.213 0.5 0.465 0.035 12.2  < 0.001*
Hours of employment per week 247  – 0.006 0.4 0.515 0.280 0.9 0.343 0.037 13.1  < 0.001*

The table shows the valid number of subjects analyzed (N) and the results of binary logistic regression analyses (Patients with masculine depression vs. patients with non-masculine depression, patients with masculine depression vs. controls, patients with non-masculine depression vs. controls) and linear regression analyses (MDRS-22 score). P < 0.05 in bold, *also significant in bootstrap analysis. Coding: Patients with non-masculine depression = 0 vs. patients with masculine depression = 1, controls = 0 vs. patients with masculine / non-masculine depression = 1; females = 0 vs. males = 1. GGT gamma-glutamyl transferase, MDRS-22 male depression rating scale 22