. 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 value^a
Depressive symptoms^b	50/295 (16.9)	267/2860 (9.3)	.001
Anxiety symptoms^c	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 value^a
Depressive symptoms^b	178/1557 (11.4)	138/1592 (8.7)	.010
Anxiety symptoms^c	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

P value calculated by Pearson χ² test

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

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