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Table 1 Differences in demographic characteristics between the depressive disorder groups

From: A new chronobiological approach to discriminate between acute and chronic depression using peripheral temperature, rest-activity, and light exposure parameters

 

Dfe

Dc

Student t test for independent samples

 

Mean ± SE

Mean ± SE

T

P

Age

44 + 3.94

44.82 + 3.33

0.16

0.88

Beck

17.90 + 2.8

32.27 + 4.3

-2.78

0.013

Hamilton

17.40 + 4.8

25.18 + 9.27

-2.45

0.027

Montgomery-Asberg

21.5 + 5.08

23.00 + 9.76

-0.5

0.66

  1. D fe Depressives-first episode, D c Depressives-chronic, SE Standard error of the mean.