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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Compr Psychiatry. 2008 Mar 4;49(3):238–246. doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.06.012

Table 2.

Baseline Characteristics and Their Association with Gender

Characteristics Men N=952 (37.5%) Women N= 1589 (62.5%) Unadj. p-value Adj. p-value1
n % n %
Setting <.0001 <.0001
 Primary Care 342 35.9 721 45.4
 Specialty Care 610 64.1 868 54.6
Race 0.0087 0.0009
 White 750 78.8 1167 73.4
 Black or African American 138 14.5 298 18.8
 Other 64 6.7 124 7.8
Ethnicity-Hispanic <.0001
 No 856 89.9 1315 82.8
 Yes 96 10.1 273 17.2
Marital Status 0.0035 <.0001
 Never Married 300 31.6 478 30.1
 Married 402 42.4 633 40.0
 Divorced 230 24.2 405 25.5
 Widowed 17 1.8 70 4.4
Employment Status <.0001 0.0050
 Unemployed, not looking 168 17.7 383 24.1
 Unemployed, looking 168 17.7 250 15.8
 Employed 543 57.2 884 55.7
 Retired 70 7.4 69 4.4
Suicidality
Attempted Suicide <.0001 0.0002
 No 839 88.1 1293 81.6
 Yes 113 11.9 292 18.4
 Present Suicide Risk 0.6334 0.5268
 No 928 97.5 1540 97.2
 Yes 24 2.5 45 2.8
Characteristics N Men N=952 (37.5%) Women N=1589 (62.5%) Unadj.p-value Adj.p-value1
Mean(SD) Median Mean(SD) Median
Age 2539 42.4 (13.1) 43 39.4 (13.3) 39 <.0001 ---
Education (Yrs.) 2530 13.8 (2.9) 14 13.1 (3.4) 13 <.0001 <.0001
GMC
 Categories Endorsed 2541 3.1 (2.4) 3 3.0 (2.4) 3 0.4102 0.1251
 Total Score 2541 4.6 (4.2) 3 4.3 (3.7) 3 0.0288 0.9464
 Severity Index 2541 1.2 (0.7) 1.2 1.2 (0.6) 1.2 0.3921 0.5781
Age at Onset of 1st MDE 2509 26.6 (14.8) 23 25.1 (14.5) 20 0.0027 0.4618
Number of Episodes 2146 8.2 (16.1) 3 4.6 (9.4) 2 <.0001 <.0001
Length of Episode (Mos.) 2513 26.8 (56.3) 8 22.3 (46) 7 0.2907 0.4889
Length of Illness (Yrs.) 2507 15.9 (13.5) 12 14.3 (12.8) 10 0.0093 0.7008
HRSD17 (ROA) 2322 19 (6.4) 19 20 (6.5) 20 0.0004 0.0006
IDSC30 (ROA) 2308 33.7 (11.3) 34 36.3 (11.4) 36 <.0001 <.0001
QIDS-SR16 2523 14.7 (4.3) 15 15.9 (4.3) 16 <.0001 <.0001
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Adjusted for Age and Ethnicity