Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients receiving 37.5‐min or 18.75‐min rTMS protocol

	37.5‐min protocol		18.75‐min protocol		Statistical analysis
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	t	df	P
Age (y)	49.6	7.5	42.9	9.1	2.19	28	0.04
Age at onset (y)	37.5	8.9	34.1	7.4	1.12	28	0.27
Depression type (MDD, BD)	10, 5		9, 6
Number of depressive episodes	3.1	1.0	3.2	1.7	−0.26	28	0.80
Number of manic/hypomanic episodes	0.6	1.1	0.7	1.2	−0.32	28	0.75
Duration of current depressive episode (mo)	9.6	6.1	10.3	8.4	−0.25	28	0.81
QIDS score at baseline	13.5	2.6	14.2	2.9	−0.72	28	0.48
PHQ‐9 score at baseline	14.9	3.8	14.5	5.1	0.29	28	0.78
Treatment sessions	27.3	6.1	27.1	6.8	0.09	28	0.93

Depression type was analyzed using chi‐square test (χ ² = 0.14, df = 1, P = 0.71).

Abbreviations: BD, bipolar disorder; MDD, major depressive disorder; PHQ‐9, patient health questionnaire; QIDS, quick inventory of depressive symptomatology.