Fig. 1: Overview of study participants.

Overview of number of study participants, number of study participants with a diagnoses of depression in the registries and timeframe for data collection. Analyses were stratified on groups with separate level of health care use and with separate level of symptom severity. The definitions of groups are given in Table 1, in section Subject and Methods- Phenotype measures and in Supplementary Note 2. Moba- The Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort study, SCL-5 The Selective items from the (Hopkins) Symptoms Checklist-5, SWLS The Satisfaction With Life Scale, RSES the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, NPR National Patient registry, CPHR the Norwegian Control and Payment of Health Reimbursements Database. Created in BioRender. Haram, M. (2025) https://BioRender.com/m7yzxx6.