Table 1.
Mean (SD) of Participant Characteristics
| Control |
Depression |
Anxiety |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Children | Adolescents | Children | Adolescents | Children | Adolescents | ||
| n | 44 | 32 | 76 | 40 | 18 | 14 | |
| Age (years) | 10.36 (1.43) | 13.44 (1.61) | 10.49 (1.42) | 13.98 (1.36) | 10.49 (1.38) | 13.38 (1.99) | |
| Sex (female), % | 3 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 6 | |
| Race, % | |||||||
| European American | 90.9 | 90.6 | 76.3 | 84.6 | 100 | 58.3 | |
| African American | 4.5 | 3.1 | 22.4 | 10.3 | 0 | 33.3 | |
| Other | 4.5 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 0 | 8.3 | |
| SES | 46.05 (11.22) | 46.87 (11.66) | 38.12 (14.28) | 39.36 (12.14) | 39.97 (10.32) | 42.42 (14.43) | |
| BMI | 17.79 (2.99) | 21.65 (4.49) | 18.87 (3.39) | 22.31 (3.62) | 18.93 (4.42) | 22.09 (4.24) | |
| Medication (n) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 2 | |
| Baseline cortisol | 4.18 (2.65) | 5.20 (3.22) | 4.84 (2.77) | 6.06 (3.62) | 4.65 (3.44) | 6.06 (4.00) | |
| Depressive symptoms | 13.69 (4.87) | 15.71 (6.15) | |||||
SES, socioeconomic status. BMI, body mass index. Adolescent, Tanner stage 3 or above. The “Other” race category includes Asian and biracial. SES is reported in units from the Hollingshead index (1975). Depressive symptoms, available for the participants with depression only, were computed as an extracted score of the K-SADS-PL (Kaufman et al 1997) and are equivalent to Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (Hamilton 1960) scores.