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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Psychiatry. 2014 Oct;71(10):1138–1147. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2014.1087

Table 1.

Demographic and Clinical Characteristics

Demographic Characteristics MDD HC P value1
N 41 29
Age (mean years ± SD) 15.7 ± 2 16.0 ± 2 0.5
Sex (male/female) 9/32 (78% female) 7/22 (76% female) 0.8
Right Handed – n (%) 32 (91%; n = 35) 25 (93%; n = 27) 0.8
Ethnicity – n (%) 0.1
Caucasian 28 (68%) 16 (55 %)
African American 5 (12%) 1 (4%)
Hispanic 4 (10%) 4 (14%)
Asian 0 2 (70%)
Native American 0 1 (3%)
Other 4 (10%) 5 (17%)
Current Comorbidities – n (%) 27 (68%) N/A
Attention Deficit and Hyperactive Disorder 6 (15%) N/A
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 16 (39%) N/A
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 1 (3%) N/A
Oppositional Defiant Disorder 2 (5%) N/A
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 2 (5%) N/A
Social Anxiety 3 (8%) N/A
Dysthymia 2 (5%) N/A
Panic Disorder 2 (5%) N/A
Specific Phobia 3 (8%) N/A
Social Phobia 4 (10%) N/A
Medication History
Med-Naïve – n (%) 30 (73%) N/A
Past Antidepressant Use –n (%) 8 (57%) N/A
Past Stimulants Use 4 (29%) N/A
Past Antipsychotic Use 2 (14%) N/A
Illness History, Description, Etc
Duration of illness (mean months±SD) 10 ± 11 (n = 39) 1 N/A
Global Assessment of Functioning (mean±SD) 54 ± 9 N/A
Positive Family History 28 (82%; n = 34) N/A
Clinical Severity
CDRS-R (T-scores mean±SD) 77 ± 6 (n = 34) N/A
BDI-II Most Severe (mean±SD) 29 ± 13 3 ± 4 <0.0001
IDAS Dimension scores n = 37 n = 28
General Depression Score 57 ± 16 27 ± 4 <0.0001
Dysphoria Score 28 ± 9 12 ± 3 <0.0001
Lassitude Score 19 ± 6 9 ± 3 <0.0001
Insomnia Score 5 ± 6 7 ± 1 <0.0001
Suicidality Score 13 ± 7 6 ± 0.2 <0.0001
Loss of Appetite Score 7 ± 3 3 ± 1 <0.0001
Appetite Gain Score 6 ± 4 4 ± 2 0.008
Ill Temper Score 12 ± 6 6 ± 2 <0.0001
Well-being Score 18 ± 6 27 ± 6 <0.0001
Social Anxiety Score 123 ± 5 6 ± 1 <0.0001
Panic Score 14 ± 7 8 ± 1 <0.0001
Traumatic Intrusion Score 8 ± 4 4 ± 0.5 <0.0001
1

P values resulted from chi square analyses (sex, ethnicity) or independent samples t-tests (all others).

2

Exact number of subjects are provided