Sub-threshold depression and antidepressants use in a community sample: searching anxiety and finding bipolar disorder

Table 1 Prevalence of Sub-threshold Depression (SD) (HRDS > 10 without criteria for lifetime Depressive Episode) by sex and frequency of Mania and Hypomania detected by MDQ in SD, Depressive Episode point prevalence = DE and in the overall sample without depressive depression (SD or DE) = ND, by sex

	Male	%	Female	%	Total	%	OR (F)	CL 95%	Χ2 1df	P
SD	29	2.0	108	5.5	137	5.0	2.86	1.4-4.3	25.5	< 0.0005
1. MDQ in SD	3	10.3	7	6.5	10	7.3	0.6	0.24-1.39	0.10	0.76
2. MDQ in DE	4	23.5	11	28.9	15	27.3	1.3	0.41-2.10	0.01	0.92
3. MDQ in ND	42	3.0	36	2.0	78	2.4	0.6	0.34-1.05	3.14	0.08
MDQ in the overall sample	49	3.4	54	2.7	103	3.0	0.8	0.5-1.2	1.00	0.312
Χ2 by columns 3df	25.7		107.0		100.4
P	0.0001		0.0001		0.0001

Homogeneity by cells in columns (1DF):
Column Male 1vs2, χ2 = 0.6, P = 0.43; 1vs3, χ2 = 2.86, P = 0.09; 2vs3 χ2 16.3, P < 0.001; Column Female1vs2, χ2 = 11.1, P < 0.001; 1vs3, χ2 = 7.05, P = 0.006; 2vs3 χ2 = 98.8, P < 0.0001; Column Total 1vs2, χ2 = 12.5, P < 0.001; 1vs3, χ2 = 6.4, P < 0.01; 2vs3 χ2 = 91.2, P < 0.0001.

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