Table 1.
Sociodemographic and Select Clinical Variables of the Study Population.
| Variables | Total N = 220 |
Depressive disorder n = 110 |
Anxiety disorder n = 58 |
Somatoform disorder n = 52 |
p-Value |
| Age, M (SD)a | 41.4 (10.2) | 41.6 (9.7) | 36.5 (8.8) | 46.4 (10.4) | <0.001*b |
| Gender, n (%)† Male Female |
82 (37.3) 138 (62.7) |
36 (32.7) 74 (67.3) |
30 (51.7) 28 (48.3) |
16 (30.8) 36 (69.2) |
0.029* |
| Education, n (%)‡ Illiterate Primary High school College Undergraduate Postgraduate |
65 (29.5) 48 (21.8) 51 (23.2) 14 (6.4) 35 (15.9) 7 (3.2) |
33 (30) 27 (24.5) 21 (19.1) 6 (5.5) 19 (17.3) 4 (3.6) |
6 (10.3) 9 (15.5) 21 (36.2) 5 (8.6) 15 (25.9) 2 (3.4) |
26 (50) 12 (23.1) 9 (17.3) 3 (5.8) 1 (1.9) 1 (1.9) |
<0.001* |
| Occupation, n (%)# Unemployed Un/semiskilled Skilled Business Clerical Professional |
4 (1.8) 100 (45.5) 73 (33.2) 15 (6.8) 19 (8.6) 9 (4.1) |
3 (2.7) 51 (46.4) 33 (30) 9 (8.2) 8 (7.3) 6 (5.5) |
0 19 (32.8) 23 (39.7) 4 (6.9) 9 (15.5) 3 (5.2) |
1 (1.9) 30 (57.7) 17 (32.7) 2 (3.8) 2 (3.8) 0 |
0.13 |
| Marital status, n (%)# Single Married Divorced/Separated Widow/Widower |
20 (9.1) 166 (75.5) 6 (2.7) 28 (12.7) |
7 (6.4) 84 (76.4) 5 (4.5) 14 (12.7) |
11 (19) 41 (70.7) 0 6 (10.3) |
2 (3.8) 41 (78.8) 1 (1.9) 8 (15.4) |
0.078 |
| Family type, n (%)† Nuclear Joint |
148 (67.6) 71 (32.4) |
76 (69.1) 34 (30.9) |
43 (74.1) 15 (25.9) |
29 (56.9) 22 (43.1) |
0.14 |
| SES, n (%)† Lower Lower middle Middle and upper |
154 (70) 30 (13.6) 36 (16.4) |
76 (69.1) 15 (13.6) 19 (17.3) |
33 (56.9) 12 (20.7) 13 (22.4) |
45 (86.5) 3 (5.8) 4 (7.7) |
0.02* |
| Duration of illness (in years), M (SD)a | 6.27 (6.39) | 6.63 (6.52) | 4.64 (5.68) | 7.52 (6.67) | 0.009*c |
| Duration of treatment (in years), M (SD)a | 4.07 (5.39) | 4.69 (6.14) | 2.88 (4.99) | 4.27 (3.95) | 0.028*c |
| CGI-S | 3.19 (1.01) | 3.12 (1.08) | 3.35 (0.97) | 3.15 (0.89) | 0.42 |
*p <0.05 (2-tailed); †Pearson’s chi–square test; ‡Likelihood ratio; #Fisher–Freeman–Halton exact test; aKruskal–Wallis test; bPost hoc Mann–Whitney test (Somatoform>Depression>Anxiety); cPost hoc Mann–Whitney test (Somatoform = Depression>Anxiety); CGI-S: Clinical Global Impression-Severity scale; SD, standard deviation.