Table 2.
The impact on major depressive disorder of 16 stressful life events in Chinese women with recurrent major depression.
| Stressful life events | Cases |
Controls |
OR | 95% CI | LogP | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Pct | N | Pct | ||||
| Death of a family member | 403 | 20.7% | 442 | 17.1% | 1.27 | 1.09–1.47 | 2.73 |
| Divorce/relationship breakup | 340 | 17.5% | 222 | 8.6% | 2.26 | 1.88–2.70 | 18.00 |
| Ever unemployed | 319 | 16.4% | 348 | 13.4% | 1.26 | 1.07–1.49 | 2.26 |
| Job loss | 144 | 7.4% | 98 | 3.8% | 2.03 | 1.56–2.64 | 6.86 |
| Financial crisis | 420 | 21.6% | 448 | 17.3% | 1.32 | 1.13–1.53 | 3.53 |
| Legal problems | 81 | 4.2% | 38 | 1.5% | 2.92 | 1.97–4.30 | 7.12 |
| Serious illness | 232 | 11.9% | 243 | 9.4% | 1.31 | 1.08–1.58 | 2.23 |
| Life-threatening accident | 188 | 9.7% | 207 | 8.0% | 1.23 | 1.00–1.52 | 1.31 |
| Natural disaster | 264 | 13.6% | 379 | 14.6% | 0.92 | 0.77–1.08 | 0.52 |
| Witness someone injured | 174 | 8.9% | 233 | 9.0% | 0.99 | 0.81–1.22 | 0.02 |
| Raped | 33 | 1.7% | 4 | 0.2% | 11.15 | 3.94–31.51 | 5.26 |
| Physically assaulted | 122 | 6.3% | 89 | 3.4% | 1.88 | 1.42–2.49 | 5.00 |
| Physically abused | 103 | 5.3% | 42 | 1.6% | 3.39 | 2.36–4.88 | 10.31 |
| Seriously neglected | 203 | 10.5% | 74 | 2.9% | 3.98 | 3.03–5.23 | 22.43 |
| Threatened | 26 | 1.3% | 14 | 0.5% | 2.50 | 1.30–4.80 | 2.23 |
| Other terrible event | 154 | 8.0% | 142 | 5.5% | 1.49 | 1.18–1.88 | 3.02 |
The number (N) and percentage (Pct) of women reporting each of 16 stressful life events are given. Odds ratio (OR) with their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) and associated P-values are shown. The P-value (LogP) is given as the negative logarithm (base 10).