Table 1.
Demographics and clinical characteristics of the sample
| Males (n=51) | Females (n=48) | Between Group Comparison | |
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| Ethnicity | |||
| % Caucasian (n) | 68.63% (35/51) | 52.08% (25/48) | No difference |
| % Other (n) | 3.92% (2/51) | 14.58% (7/48) | |
| % Missing (n) | 27.45% (14/51) | 33.33% (16/48) | |
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| Handedness | |||
| % Right-handed (n) | 90.20% (46/51) | 93.75% (45/48) | No difference |
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| Age | |||
| in years; M (SD) | 45.02 (3.88) | 44.33 (4.77) | No difference |
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| BMI | |||
| M (SD) | 29.17 (5.15) | 29.86 (6.89) | No difference |
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| Parental SESa | |||
| % Lowest SES quartile (n) | 23.53% (12/51) | 20.83% (10/48) | No difference |
| % Lower middle SES quartile (n) | 23.53% (12/51) | 18.75% (9/48) | |
| % Higher middle SES quartile (n) | 21.57% (11/51) | 25.00% (12/48) | |
| % Highest SES quartile (n) | 19.61% (10/51) | 20.83% (10/48) | |
| % Missing (n) | 11.76% (6/51) | 12.50% (6/48) | |
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| Education level | |||
| % Without completed high school (n) | 9.8% (5/51) | 4.17% (2/48) | No difference |
| % Completed high school (n) | 21.57% (11/51) | 14.58% (7/48) | |
| % More than high school (n) | 66.67% (34/51) | 77.08% (37/48) | |
| % Missing (n) | 1.96% (1/51) | 4.17% (2/48) | |
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| WAIS vocabulary, age-scaled | |||
| M (SD) | 11.18 (3.35) | 10.09 (3.08) | No difference |
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| WAIS block design, age-scaled | |||
| M (SD) | 11.67 (3.35) | 9.74 (2.98) | Males > Females |
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| DSM-based diagnosis | |||
| % MDD in remission (n) | 25.49% (13/51) | 29.17% (14/48) | No difference |
| % Psychosis (n) | 31.37% (16/51) | 31.25% (15/48) | |
| % Healthy controls (n) | 43.14% (22/51) | 39.58% (19/48) | |
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| Psychotropic medication | |||
| % on psychotropic medication (n) | 35.29% (18/51) | 31.25% (15/48) | No difference |
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| Substance use disorder | |||
| % with any substance use disorder (n) | 64.72% (33/51) | 16.67% (8/48) | Males > Females |
a
Parental socioeconomic status (SES) was assigned a single, continuous score for education, occupation, and family income according to the system used for the United States Bureau of the Census (Myrianthopoulos & French, 1968). This composite index ranged from 0.0 (low) to 9.5 (high).
Myrianthopoulos, N.C., & French, K.S. (1968). An application of the US Bureau of the Census socioeconomic index to a large, diversified patient population, Soc Sci Med, 2, 283–299.