Table 1.

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of study participants by subgroup

	Total (N = 83)	Yoga group (N = 47)	Control group (N = 36)
Sociodemographic characteristics
Age	M = 49.65; SD = 9.83	M = 48.38; SD = 10.21	M = 51.31; SD = 9.19
Gender (female: male)	66: 17	38: 9	28: 8
Nationality:
German	90.36%	87.23%	94.44%
Other	9.64%	12.77%	5.56%
Years of education	M = 14.74; SD = 3.06	M = 15.23; SD = 3.27	M = 13.72; SD = 2.44
Psychiatric and physiological characteristics
Duration of disease	M = 9.02; SD = 7.40	M = 8.79; SD = 8.19	M = 9.31; SD = 6.30
Number of previous depressive episodes	M = 2.69; SD = 1.25	M = 2.85; SD = 12.00	M = 2.50; SD = 1.16
Medication	75.90%	76.60%	75.00%
Psychotherapy	92.8%	91.49%	94.4%
BMI	M = 26.80; SD = 5.29	M = 26.98; SD = 5.47	M = 26.56; SD = 6.00

M mean difference, SD standard deviation, p significance, p ≤ 0.005, BMI body mass index