Table 1.

Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients Failing Acute-stage Depression Care (N = 66)

Characteristic	Percentage or Mean
Mean age, y	41.9
Male gender, %	17.7
Married, %	33.9
Minority status, %	21.0
High school education, %	80.6
Employed, %	58.1
Has health insurance, %	87.1
Mean physical commorbidities, n	1.2
Reports that antidepressants are acceptable, %	54.8*
Reports that specialty care counseling is acceptable, %	82.3
Reports previous treatment at enrollment, %	53.2

^*Patient report that antidepressants are acceptable was the only characteristic associated with failure to initiate antidepressant therapy in either univaraiate (p = .01) or multivariate (p = .0008) analyses.