Improving Knowledge and Attitudes towards Depression: a controlled trial among Chinese medical students

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Characteristics of the DT group and the DT/SDL group at baseline

		Total	DT	DT/SDL	Statistical comparison of DT vs DT/SDL
		N = 205	n₁= 103	n₂= 102
Age, years: mean (SD)		20.18 (0.70)	20.23 (0.70)	20.13 (0.70)	t = 1.00, d.f. = 202, P = 0.319
Gender, n (%)
	Male	91 (44.4)	46 (44.7)	45 (44.1)	X² = 0.01, d.f. = 1, P = 0.938
	Female	114 (55.6)	57 (55.3)	57 (55.9)
Area of origin, n (%)
	Urban	121 (59.0)	65 (63.1)	56 (54.9)	X² = 1.43, d.f. = 1, P = 0.232
	Non-urban	84 (41.0)	38 (36.9)	46 (45.1)
Experience depression, n (%)
	Yes	28 (86.3)	14 (13.6)	14 (13.7)	X² = 0.00, d.f. = 1, P = 0.978
	No	177 (13.7)	89 (86.4)	88 (86.3)
Depression nominated as a main cause of death or disability, n (%) ^b
	Yes	57 (35.0)	30 (37.0)	27 (32.9)	X² = 0.30, d.f. = 1, P = 0.582
	No	106 (65.0)	51 (63.0)	55 (67.1)
MICA score: mean (SD)		43.51 (6.67)	43.75 (6.93)	43.27 (6.42)	t = 0.51, d.f. = 203, P = 0.613
Psychological distress (K10) ^a: mean (SD)		16.55 (4.46)	16.42 (4.20)	16.69 (4.72)	t = 0.43, d.f. = 198, P = 0.668

^a The respondent scores of 21 or below indicate low or moderate level of psychological distress; the respondent scores of 22 or above indicate high or very high level of psychological distress.
^b Only those students who nominated over four diseases at baseline were included in this analysis.

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