Table 1.

Characteristics of post-discharge depressed patients with three and six month antidepressant medication possession ratios (MPRs)^*

	3 month MPRs				6 month MPRs
	All patients N (%)	MPR < 0.80	MPR ≥ 0.80	p-value	All patients N (%)	MPR < 0.80	MPR ≥ 0.80	p-value
	(N=20,931)	(N=10,243)	(N=10,688)		(N=23,182)	(N=13,835)	(N=9347)
Sex
Male	19,744 (94.3)	9722 (94.9)	10,022 (93.8)	<0.001	21,946 (94.7)	13,132 (94.9)	8814 (94.3)	<0.05
Female	1187 (5.7)	521 (5.1)	666 (6.2)		1236 (5.3)	703 (5.1)	533 (5.7)
Age
Mean	52.0 (12.4)	50.4 (11.9)	53.5 (12.7)	<0.001	52.1 (12.5)	50.4 (12.1)	54.6 (12.7)	<0.001
18-44	5532 (26.4)	3135 (30.6)	2397 (22.4)	<0.001	6138 (26.5)	4327 (31.3)	1811 (19.4)	<0.001
45-64	12,314 (58.8)	5921 (57.8)	6393 (59.8)		13,530 (58.4)	7875 (56.9)	5655 (60.5)
65+	3085 (14.7)	1187 (11.6)	1898 (17.8)		3514 (15.2)	1633 (11.8)	1881 (20.1)
Race
White	15,169 (72.5)	6636 (64.8)	8533 (79.8)	<0.001	16,644 (71.8)	9027 (65.3)	7617 (81.5)	<0.001
Black	4921 (23.5)	3168 (30.9)	1753 (16.4)		5623 (24.3)	4230 (30.6)	1393 (14.9)
Other	482 (2.3)	238 (2.3)	244 (2.3)		547 (2.4)	315 (2.3)	232 (2.5)
Unknown	359 (1.7)	201 (2.0)	158 (1.5)		368 (1.6)	263 (1.9)	105 (1.1)
Hispanic	1179 (5.6)	571 (5.6)	608 (5.7)	NS	1299 (5.6)	782 (5.7)	517 (5.5)	NS
Substance abuse	12,284 (58.7)	6984 (68.2)	5300 (49.6)	<0.001	14,078 (60.7)	9542 (69.0)	4536 (48.5)	<0.001
PTSD	6967 (33.3)	3129 (30.6)	3838 (35.9)	<0.001	7457 (32.2)	3978 (28.8)	3479 (37.2)	<0.001
Personality disorder	2813 (13.4)	1482 (14.5)	1331 (12.5)	<0.001	3114 (13.4)	1946 (14.1)	1168 (12.5)	<0.001
Other anxiety disorder	4431 (21.2)	1830 (17.9)	2601 (24.3)	<0.001	4771 (20.6)	2445 (17.7)	2326 (24.9)	<0.001

^*all values presented as N (%) indicate frequencies and percents of the study sample.

NS = non-significant