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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2011 Jul 18;28(10):876–884. doi: 10.1002/da.20861

Table 1.

Comparisons between HD and OCD participants on demographics and hoarding severity.

HD OCD t p
Age 52.63 (10.3)
range 19–78
34.56 (13.6)
range 18–74
12.95 .001
Gender 78.7% female 46.9% female χ2=27.6 .001
Education 3.91 (1.4) 4.20 (1.3) 1.70 .09
Income 4.39 (2.7) 3.87 (2.7) 1.46 .15
Saving Inventory Revised Total (SIR) 62.0 (13.7)
range 21–92
16.1 (15.3)
range 0–65
25.87 .001
SIR - Clutter 26.4 (6.1)
range 5–36
4.8 (6.5)
range 0–29
27.60 .001
SIR - Difficulty Discarding 19.6 (4.8)
range 3–28
6.4 (6.2)
range 0–25
20.08 .001
SIR - Excessive Acquisition 15.9 (5.8)
range 2–28
4.9 (5.4)
range 0–27
15.49 .001

Note: Education levels were based on an 8-point scale ranging from 1=PhD, MD or equivalent to 8=Grammar school. Level 3 was “some graduate school” and 4 was “BA, BS or equivalent”. Income levels were also based on an 8-point scale ranging from 1=”$70,000 and up” to 8=”$10,000 or less”. Level 3 was “$50,001–60,000” and 4 was “$40,001–50,000)