Does the millennial generation of women experience more mental illness than their mothers?

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Comparison of CIDI diagnoses (lifetime ever) for mothers (first pregnancy) and their daughters (only for mother and daughters where diagnostic data is available for both)*

		Daughter	Mother	D/M Odds Ratio (95% CI)Unadjusted	D/M Odds Ratio (95% CI)Adjusted*
		N%	N%
Major Depressive Disorder	Yes	26.5	11.0	2.89(2.27, 3.69)	2.91(2.28,3.72)
	No	73.5	89.0
	No	1194	1194
Generalised Anxiety Disorder	Yes	8.2	4.6	1.91(1.29,2.83)	1.92(1.30,2.86)
	No	91.8	95.4
	No	1188	1188
Panic Disorder	Yes	4.4	2.5	1.94(1.14,3.32)	1.95(1.14,3.34)
	No	95.6	97.5
	No	1194	1194
PTSD	Yes	13.1	10.3	1.29(0.97,1.71)	1.29(0.97,1.72)
	No	86.9	89.7
	No	1178	1178

*McNemar’s test for marginal homogeneity
**Adjusted for mother’s employment and education, and daughter’s employment, education, occupational class and marital status ( N = 972)
***Numbers vary slightly with missing values for some diagnostic categories

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