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. 2011 Dec;135(1-3):95–99. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.06.054

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).