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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 11.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2008 Jul 1;160(2):200–211. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.08.008

Table 2.

Psychiatric Work Impairment Days in the past 30 days for Hoarding Participants vs. Women in the National Comorbidity Survey Meeting Criteria for DSM III-R Psychiatric Disorders

Hoarding Participants NCS Comparison Group N M (SD) F
Meeting full diagnostic criteria (M = 7.01, SD = 8.50, n = 591) Not meeting full diagnostic criteria (M = 3.59, SD = 5.92, n = 199)a Major Depressive Disorder 195 2.55 (5.43)a 33.40**
Dysthymic Disorder 31 2.15 (3.72)a 18.15**
Panic Disorder 66 3.98 (7.17)a 16.35**
Agoraphobia 92 3.12 (7.14)a 20.25**
Social Phobia 212 1.59 (4.93)a,b 47.62**
Simple Phobia 320 1.16 (4.41)a,b 73.53**
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 67 4.57 (8.31) 14.95**
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 131 2.55 (5.32)a 27.55**
Alcohol Abuse 296 0.62 (3.07)a, b 86.09**
Alcohol Dependence 375 1.36 (4.32)a, b 77.80**
Drug Abuse 148 0.98 (3.19)a, b 46.43**
Drug Dependence 252 1.41 (4.56)a, b 57.18**
Bipolar Disorder 29 5.19 (9.24) 13.88**
Non-Affective Psychosis 15 11.07 (13.16)b 16.18**
**

p < .001.

a

Significantly different from hoarding participants meeting full diagnostic criteria (p < .05).

b

Significantly different from hoarding participants not meeting full diagnostic criteria (p < .05).