Table 1.
Comparison of baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with depression with or without a history of affective disorders in first-degree relatives
| characteristics | with family
history (n=37) |
without family
history (n=40) |
statistic | p |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| inpatient at time of enrollment, n (%) | 33 (89.2%) | 35 (87.5%) | X2=0.05 | 0.818 |
| weeks as outpatient during 12-weeks of treatment, median (IQR) | 5 (4-8) | 4 (4-8) | Z=0.04 | 0.969 |
| female gender, n (%) | 21 (56.8%) | 23 (57.5%) | X2=0.03 | 0.869 |
| age, mean (sd) | 41.9 (9.6) | 39.0 (11.3) | t=1.18 | 0.240 |
| unmarried, n (%) | 5 (13.5%) | 9 (22.5%) | X2=2.35 | 0.503 |
| age of onset, mean (sd) | 30.9 (12.3) | 36.7 (11.0) | t=2.20 | 0.031 |
| total duration of illness in months, median (IQR) | 12 (4-318) | 6 (2-33) | Z=2.03 | 0.043 |
| duration of the current episode in months, median (IQR) | 6 (2-12) | 2.5 (1-6) | Z=1.99 | 0.047 |
| number of episodes, median (IQR) | 1 (1-2) | 1(1-2) | Z=0.70 | 0.486 |
IQR, interquartile range