Table 1.
Demographic and symptom severity information for control and MDD participants.
Two-tailed p-values for between-group t tests or chi-squared analyses are presented in the final column.
| MDD Group, n = 30 Mean (SD) |
Control Group, n=40 Mean (SD) |
df | p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 68.3 (6.3) | 70.8 (7.1) | 68 | .124 |
| Race | 2 | .556 | ||
| African American | 10% | 3.3% | ||
| Caucasian | 87.5% | 93.3% | ||
| Did not indicate | 2.5% | 3.3% | ||
| NAART VIQ | 112.7 (5.4) | 111.1 (5.4) | 68 | .628 |
| FAS percentilea | 53.6 (32.1) | 53.8 (27.6) | 54 | .98 |
| Trails A percentileb | 48.7 (27.5) | 51.6 (33.7) | 66 | .71 |
| Trails B percentileb | 34.2 (28.7) | 48.4 (32.0) | 66 | .07 |
| CES-D | 29.9 (8.8) | 3.0 (3.18) | 68 | <. 0001 |
NAART VIQ: North American Adult Reading Test
CESD: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
a
MDD group n = 24, Control group n = 32
b
MDD group n = 28