Table 1. Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics of our Study Sample Consisting of 85 Currently Depressed Patients and 85 Healthy Controls.

	Healthy controls (N=85)	MDD patients (N=85)	P-value
	Mean±SD	Mean±SD
Age	37.2±11.8	37.6±12.0	0.847
Sex (m/f)	34/51	31/54	0.752
Occupational education (years)	3.1±1.7	3.1±1.3	0.816
CTQ total	34.0±7.4	44.8±15.9	<0.001
Emotional neglect	9.2±3.3	13.0±5.3	<0.001
Physical neglect	6.7±2.1	7.5±2.6	0.024
Sexual abuse	5.0±0.2	6.4±3.9	0.001
Physical abuse	5.8±2.1	7.0±3.3	0.005
Emotional abuse	7.3±2.8	10.8±5.3	<0.001
HAM-D	1.2±1.6	23.4±5.4	<0.001
BDI	2.2±3.0	29.2±9.4	<0.001
Duration of illness (months)	NA	94.3±100.6	NA
Number of episodes	NA	3.6±3.5	NA

Means, ±SD, and group differences (as measured with t-tests or χ²-test).