Table 3.
Selected personal characteristics, socioeconomic factors, risk factors and health behaviours by status for likely lifetime occurrence of operationally defined syndromes (people may be included in more than one category)
| Characteristics | No ‘lifetime’ criteria meta (n = 108 752) |
Depressionb (n = 37 434) |
Bipolar type 1c (n = 931) |
Anxiety disorder (GAD)b (n = 11 111) |
Unusual experiencesd (n = 7803) |
Addictione (n = 9386) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal characteristics | |||||||
| Age,f n (%) | 45–54 | 14 364 (13) | 7145 (19) | 228 (24) | 2348 (21) | 1485 (19) | 2013 (21) |
| 55–64 | 33 307 (31) | 14 809 (40) | 417 (45) | 4470 (40) | 2904 (37) | 3428 (37) | |
| 65–74 | 51 705 (48) | 13 739 (37) | 261 (28) | 3892 (35) | 2960 (38) | 3466 (37) | |
| ≥75 (oldest is 82) | 9376 (9) | 1741 (5) | 25 (3) | 401 (4) | 454 (6) | 479 (5) | |
| Gender, n (%) | Female | 57 556 (53) | 25 815 (69) | 532 (57) | 7404 (67) | 4718 (60) | 4556 (49) |
| Ethnicity, n (%) | White | 105 072 (97) | 36 297 (97) | 892 (96) | 10 749 (97) | 7503 (96) | 9037 (96) |
| Townsend Deprivation Score,g n (%) | Most deprived (TDS ≥2) | 11 783 (11) | 5656 (15) | 201 (22) | 1856 (17) | 1426 (18) | 1941 (21) |
| Highest qualification, n (%) | Degree | 48 700 (45) | 16 939 (45) | 425 (46) | 5071 (46) | 3646 (47) | 4531 (48) |
| Housing tenure, n (%) | Renth | 4162 (4) | 2906 (8) | 155 (17) | 1026 (9) | 854 (11) | 1109 (12) |
| Known risk factors | |||||||
| Neuroticism score,i mean (s.d.) | 3.2 (2.8) | 5.6 (3.3) | 3.8 (3.1) | 7.1 (3.3) | 5.2 (3.5) | 5.4 (3.5) | |
| Adverse life experiences, n (%) | Childhood screenj | 43 913 (40) | 21 144 (56) | 638 (69) | 6931 (62) | 4783 (61) | 5800 (62) |
| Adult screenk | 50 226 (46) | 23 893 (64) | 685 (74) | 7581 (68) | 5284 (68) | 6303 (67) | |
| Trauma exposurel | 50 771 (47) | 22 166 (59) | 665 (71) | 6877 (62) | 5439 (70) | 6278 (67) | |
| Social connection, n (%) | Lonelinessi,m | 2976 (3) | 2367 (6) | 94 (10) | 971 (9) | 570 (7) | 669 (7) |
| Social isolationi | 7793 (7) | 3827 (10) | 126 (14) | 1173 (11) | 931 (12) | 1200 (13) | |
| Illness | Longstanding illness, disability or infirmityi | 26 341 (24) | 13 363 (36) | 503 (54) | 4581 (41) | 3242 (42) | 3588 (38) |
| Health behaviours | |||||||
| Smoking status,i n (%) | Current | 6235 (6) | 3638 (10) | 158 (17) | 1194 (11) | 837 (11) | 1916 (20) |
| Cannabis use (lifetime), n (%) | Daily | 868 (1) | 914 (2) | 63 (7) | 346 (3) | 258 (3) | 867 (9) |
| Physical activity,i n (%) | Moderate activity ≥ three times a week | 39 677 (36) | 13 988 (37) | 345 (37) | 4174 (38) | 2846 (36) | 3602 (38) |
Criteria not met for depression, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), unusual experiences or addiction.
Criteria met for disorder on Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short Form (CIDI-SF) lifetime.
Criteria met for both lifetime depression and lifetime mania.
Reported potential hallucination or delusion at any point in their life.
Positively endorsed: ‘Have you been addicted to or dependent on one or more things, including substances (not cigarettes/coffee) or behaviours (such as gambling)?’.
Age when mental health questionnaire completed, derived from date of birth.
Townsend Material Deprivation Score is based on postcode areas.
Includes rent social and rent private, excludes other categories of housing tenure.
From baseline assessment 2006–2010
Criteria met for possible abuse or neglect on Childhood Trauma Screener.
Criteria met for adverse situations as an adult: lack of confiding relationship, abusive relationships and money problems.
Reports one or more of six situations that are known to be triggers for trauma-related disorders.
There is some overlap between the adult screen and loneliness screen, which both ask about confiding relationships: adult screen includes lack of confiding relationship over the adult lifetime; loneliness includes lack of confiding relationship at the time of baseline assessment.