Table 1.

Demographic Data, CTQ Scores and Salivary Cortisol.

Variable	Healthy Controls			MDD			MDD Only			MDD+Trauma
	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD	n	Mean	SD
Sample Size	16			20			10			10
Number of female participants	10			11			7			4
Age†	16	31.1	9.2	20	34.5	10.7	10	29.2	9.3	10	39.3	9.5
Estimated IQ (Shipley	16	108.5	9.7	20	106.3	8.2	10	103.4	8.1	10	109.2	7.7
Hamilton Rating Scale of Depression**	16	0.9	1.3	20	21.4	4.1	10	21.4	4.3	10	21.4	4
Number of previous episodes				20	2.6	0.9	10	2.7	1	9	2.3	0.5
Average duration of illness (years)				20	11.8	13.2	10	5.13	4.4	10	17.9	15.6
Past alcohol abuse				3			1			2
Co-morbid/ anxiety disorder				10			2			8
Past anxiety disorder	1			3			2			1
CTQ Emotional Abuse Scale**†	16	6.1	1.5	20	12.1	6.1	10	9.3	5.3	10	14.9	5.6
CTQ Physical Abuse Scale**†	16	5.4	0.6	20	9.9	4.5	10	6.7	1.1	10	13.1	4.3
CTQ Sexual Abuse Scale*†	16	5.6	2.5	20	9.8	6.8	10	5.5	1.2	10	14.0	7.6
CTQ Emotional Neglect**	16	7.2	2.8	20	12.6	4.4	10	11.0	4.4	10	14.9	3.8
CTQ Physical Neglect*	16	5.1	0.3	20	8.5	4	10	9.1	2.6	10	7.8	5.1
Salivary Cortisol (morning samples)*	9	8.1	2	15	11.1	3.6	7	10.1	4.5	8	12	2.7
Salivary Cortisol (all samples)	7	6.4	2.1	12	7.7	2.4	6	7.6	3	6	7.9	1.9

Note.

^*p < .05 in the comparison between Healthy Controls and MDD,

^**indicates p < .001 in the comparison between Healthy Controls and MDD.

^†p< .05 in the comparison between MDD Only and MDD + Trauma,

^††indicates p < .001 in the comparison between MDD Only and MDD + Trauma.