Table 7.
Timing of Saliva Melatonin and Urinary aMT6s at Baseline Mean (SD) N
| Times are in decimal hours | |||
| Saliva Melatonin | Depressed | Healthy Controls | Sig. (T-test, p) |
| Onset | 21.48 (1.67) 28 | 20.36 (1.98) 22 | 0.16 |
| Offset | 8.76 (2.14) 32 | 8.78 (1.22) 16 | 0.873* unequal variance |
| Duration | 11.19 (1.64) 25 | 11.75 (1.75) 15 | 0.574 |
| Urinary aMT6s | |||
| Onset | 23.95 (3.15) 48 | 22.22 (2.44) 28 | 0.015 |
| Offset | 9.72 (2.82) 48 | 8.70 (2.02) 28 | 0.099 |
| Duration | 9.75 (2.48) 48 | 10.48 (2.21) 28 | 0.201 |
| Acrophase | 4.25 (2.56) 49 | 3.36 (1.75) 28 | 0.107 |
| Mesor (ng/hour) | 652.12 (911.31) 49 | 485.40 (377.80) 28 | 0.36 |
| Horne-Östberg | 54.75 (11.45) 81 | 67.65 (9.38) 23 | < 0.001 |