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. 2019 Mar 7;5(2):e21. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2019.6

Table 2.

Mental disorders in young women <25 and women ≥25 years

Women <25 years Women ≥25 years OR 95% CI
Rate % (n) Weighted prevalence, % (95% CI) Rate % (n) Weighted prevalence, % (95% CI)
Any SCID diagnosis (n = 533) 69.1 (38) 67.2 (41.7–85.4) 38.1 (182) 21.2 (17.0–26.1) 7.6 2.6–21.9
Common mental disordersa (n = 534) 58.2 (32) 45.1 (23.5–68.7) 33.0 (158) 15.5 (12.0–19.8) 4.5 1.6–12.2
Depressive disorders (n = 545) 40.4 (23) 21.7 (8.5–45.1) 25.4 (124) 9.2 (6.7–12.5) 2.7 0.9–8.3
Major depressive disorder 38.6 (22) 21.3 (8.3–44.9) 23.4 (114) 8.9 (6.4–12.1)
Mixed anxiety depressive disorder 1.8 (1) 0.4 (0.04–2.9) 2.1 (10) 0.3 (0.2–0.6)
Anxiety disorder (n = 544) 25.0 (14) 25.0 (9.7–50.9) 14.3 (70) 6.7 (4.5–9.9) 4.6 1.4–15.0
Panic disorder 1.8 (1) 0.4 (0.04–2.9) 0.4 (2) 0.2 (0.04–0.4)
Agoraphobia without panic disorder 1.8 (1) 6.9 (0.9–37.4) 0.4 (2) 0.1 (0.02–0.3)
Social phobia 14.0 (8) 22.7 (8.1–49.5) 3.7 (18) 3.0 (1.6–5.7)
Generalised anxiety disorder 14.0 (8) 9.6 (2.2–33.8) 10.7 (52) 4.1 (2.5–6.6)
Post-traumatic stress disorderb (n = 524) 13.2 (7) 2.6 (1.1–6.4) 1.5 (7) 0.6 (0.2–2.2)
Obsessive–compulsive disorderb (n = 545) 5.3 (3) 1.1 (0.3–3.9) 3.3 (16) 2.2 (1.1–4.6)
Specific phobiab (n = 544) 10.5 (6) 21.9 (7.6–49.1) 7.4 (36) 7.7 (5.1–11.4)
Eating disorderb (n = 543) 3.6 (2) 0.8 (0.2–3.3) 2.9 (14) 1.5 (0.6–3.5)
Borderline personality disorderb (n = 543) 5.4 (3) 1.1 (0.3–3.9) 2.1 (10) 0.1 (0.2–2.1)
Bipolar disorder I and/or IIb (n = 544) 0 0.4 (2)

SCID, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR.

a.

Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder.

b.

Odds ratio and confidence interval not calculated due to small numbers in each group.