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Table 1 Characteristics and medication use of 255 consecutive depressed inpatients

From: Understanding personalized dynamics to inform precision medicine: a dynamic time warp analysis of 255 depressed inpatients

Variable

Mean (SD)/no. (%)

Demographic characteristics

 Female (%)

165 (64.7)

 Bipolar disorder

48 (18.8)

 Age in years, mean (SD)

50.9 ± 15.4

 Educationa,b (n (%))

  - Lower

41 (16.1)

  - Intermediate

119 (46.7)

  - Higher

93 (36.5)

 Work status (n (%))

  - Unemployed

149 (58.4)

  - Employed

93 (36.5)

  - Others (student/voluntary service)

13 (5.1)

 Marital status (n (%))

  - Married

109 (42.7)

  - Divorced/widowed

65 (25.5)

  - Never married

81 (31.8)

 Living situationc (n (%))

  - Living alone

76 (29.8)

  - Living with partner

96 (37.6)

  - Living with family

83 (32.5)

Clinical characteristics

 Index (first) depressive episode (n (%))

56 (22)

 History of 4 or more depressive episodes (n (%))

76 (29.8)

 Lifetime substance abuse/dependencyd

  - Alcohol

27 (10.6)

  - Drugs (THC, hard drugs, benzodiazepines)

5 (2.0)

 Melancholic features

159 (62.4)

 ROM baseline total scores

  - HRSD-17

20.7 ± 4.6

  - BDI-II

33.7 ± 9.2

 Baseline medication use

  - Antidepressants

203 (79.6)

  - Antipsychotics

118 (46.3)

  - Mood stabilizers

34 (13.3)

 Responders (%)

169 (66.3)

 Remitters (%)

128 (50.2)

  1. Data are mean (SD) or no. (%), when appropriate
  2. ROM routine outcome monitoring, HRSD-17 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, BDI-II Beck Depression Inventory
  3. aLower education, general basic education only; intermediate education, middle vocational education; and higher education, higher vocational education or university
  4. bTwo missing values for education
  5. cLiving alone includes living in a home for the elderly and the convent
  6. dInvestigated using the MINI modules on substance abuse and suicidality