Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 800 persons in outpatient treatment for a mood or anxiety disorder

Characteristic	N	%
Race or ethnicity
Caucasian	545	68
African American	209	26
More than one race	25	3
Hispanica	12	1
Did not answer	9	1
American Indian	6	<1
Asian	6	<1
Computer use
Never	91	11
Less than once a month	86	11
Monthly	56	7
Weekly	95	12
Daily	470	59
Format preference
Paper and pencil	32	4
Computer	765	96
Diagnosis
Depressionb	569	71
Anxiety disorderc	308	39
Bipolar disorderd	176	22
Past drug dependence	91	11
Dysthymia	86	11
Posttraumatic stress disorder	69	9
Past alcohol dependence	66	8
Obsessive-compulsive disorder	56	7
Eating disordere	50	6
Schizoaffective disorder	23	3
Personality disorder	149	19

^aConsidered an ethnicity, not a race. Therefore, these participants were counted twice.

^bIncludes single episode, recurrent, and not otherwise specified

^cIncludes generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and not otherwise specified

^dIncludes bipolar types I and II and not otherwise specified

^eIncludes bulimia, anorexia, and not otherwise specified