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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2015 Mar 13;2(3):403–413. doi: 10.1007/s40615-015-0087-x

Table 3.

Prevalence of depression, anxiety, and self-rated health among a national sample of first year medical students attending a stratified sample of 49 US medical schools in 2010, by race and gender

No./total (%)
African American White P valuea
Depressive symptomsb 50/295 (16.9) 267/2860 (9.3) .001
Anxiety symptomsc 19/289 (6.6) 111/2863 (3.9) .028
Worse self-rated health 22/301 (7.3) 164/2896 (5.7) .246
Female Male P valuea
Depressive symptomsb 178/1557 (11.4) 138/1592 (8.7) .010
Anxiety symptomsc 86/1558 (5.5) 44/1588 (2.8) .001
“Low” self-rated health 92/1580 (5.8) 94/1611 (5.8) .988

Data are provided by the Medical Student CHANGES Study

a

P value calculated by Pearson χ2 test

b

Depression score 1 SD (10 points) above PROMIS standardized general population mean score of 50

c

Anxiety score 2 SD (20 points) above PROMIS standardized general population mean score of 50