Skip to main content

Table 1 Baseline characteristics associated with early, delayed and no treatment users among people with 12-months MDD

From: Demographic and need factors of early, delayed and no mental health care use in major depression: a prospective study

 

Overall population (N = 434)

Early treatment users (N = 271, 62%)

Delayed treatment users (N = 58, 14%)

No treatment users (N = 105, 24%)

N (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Socio-demographic factors a

 Female

291 (67)

182 (67)

37 (64)

72 (69)

 Older age (45–66 years old)

220 (51)

139 (51)

25 (43)

56 (53)

Education

  primary/lower secondary education

145 (33)

84 (30)

18 (31)

43 (41)

  higher secondary education

168 (39)

107 (40)

23 (40)

38 (36)

  higher professional education, university

121 (28)

80 (30)

17 (29)

24 (23)

 No partner

207 (48)

137 (51)

33 (57)

37 (35)

 No job

151 (35)

101 (37)

15 (26)

35 (33)

Need factors a

 Comorbid anxiety disorder

151 (35)

113 (42)

21 (36)

17 (16)

 Longer duration episode in past 12 months (>3 months) c

220 (51)

149 (55)

29 (50)

42 (40)

 Disability days on work and/or normal daily activities (>2 weeks) c

190 (44)

140 (52)

18 (31)

32 (30)

 Major depressive disorder between baseline and follow-up b c

123 (28)

84 (31)

25 (43)

14 (13)

Severity depressive symptoms (IDS)

  mild

78 (18)

32 (11)

17 (29)

30 (28)

  moderate

135 (31)

75 (28)

16 (28)

43 (42)

  severe/very severe

221 (51)

164 (61)

25 (43)

32 (30)

Other variables

 Mental health care use at follow-up b

  none

212 (49)

107 (40)

0 (0)

105 (100)

  primary care only

61 (14)

31 (11)

30 (52)

0 (0)

  specialized mental health care only

23 (5)

19 (7)

4 (7)

0 (0)

  primary + specialized mental health care

138 (32)

114 (42)

24 (41)

0 (0)

 Major depressive disorder at follow up (past 12 months) b

86 (20)

61 (23)

14 (24)

11 (11)

  1. aDeterminants recorded at baseline
  2. bDeterminant recorded between baseline and first measurement for the first cohort (T0-T1) and between T1-T2 for the second cohort