Table 2 Prevalence of moderate or severe impairment and suicide attempts by recency of onset among respondents with past-year depression

From: Sex differences in recent first-onset depression in an epidemiological sample of adolescents

Impairment domain

Males

Females

 

Persistent (%)

Recent first onset (%)

P-valuea

Persistent (%)

Recent first onset (%)

P-valuea

Chores at home

29.8

34.3

0.0405

34.0

29.1

0.0002

School or work

35.7

36.9

0.4224

40.6

34.8

0.0012

Family relationships

40.3

42.4

0.3177

56.9

49.8

0.0003

Social life

43.6

44.5

0.3139

51.0

46.8

0.0158

Any domain

68.3

68.7

0.4825

76.7

68.5

<0.0001

Suicide attempt

16.3

15.1

0.8208

28.7

15.8

<0.0001

  1. aP-values correspond to design adjusted χ2-tests (1 degree of freedom) for equivalence of the proportions with impairment between the persistent and recent first-onset categories.
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