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Table 1 Demographics, health characteristics and work outcomes in workers (n = 637) by diagnostic group

From: The role of borderline personality disorder symptoms on absenteeism & work performance in the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA)

 

Healthy controls (n = 287)

Current depressive/anxiety disorder and no likely BPD diagnosis (n = 195)

Likely BPD diagnosis without current depressive/anxiety disorder (n = 54)

Current depressive/anxiety disorder + likely BPD diagnosis (n = 103)

p-valuea

Sex, % female

57.5

67.2

59.3

62.1

0.19

Age, mean in years (SD)

43.8 (12.6)

44.5 (10.4)

42.7 (11.2)

43.3 (10.9)

0.71

Education, mean in years (SD)

14.1 (3.1)

13.3 (3.3)

12.3 (3.3)

12.0 (3.4)

< 0.001

Working hours, mean no. hours per week (SD)

32.8 (9.4)

30.4 (10.4)

31.8 (9.0)

31.2 (9.5)

0.048

Number of somatic diseases, median (IQR)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

1.0 (0.0–1.0)

0.007

Work absenteeism, median (IQR)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

1.0 (0.0–1.0)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

0.0 (0.0–1.0)

 

Work absenteeism (%)

    

< 0.001

No absence

67.9

49.7

53.7

52.4

 

Short-term absence

26.5

32.8

35.2

28.2

 

Long-term absence

5.6

17.4

11.1

19.4

 

Work performance rate, median (IQR)

0.0 (0.0–0.0)

1.0 (0.0–2.0)

1.0 (0.0–2.0)

1.0 (0.0–2.0)

 

Work performance rate (%)

    

< 0.001

No changed work performance

76.3

36.4

46.3

32.0

 

Reduced work performance

15.7

29.7

22.2

26.2

 

Impaired work performance

8.0

33.8

31.5

41.7

 

Severity of depressive symptoms (IDS scores), mean (SD)

4.8 (4.0)

20.0 (9.8)

23.0 (8.2)

27.5 (10.9)

< 0.001

Severity of anxiety symptoms (BAI scores), mean (SD)

2.4 (3.0)

12.1 (8.2)

12.5 (7.8)

16.8 (10.9)

< 0.001

DSM-IV BPD diagnosis is highly likely (%)

0.0

0.0

37.0

38.8

< 0.001

  1. a Based on ANOVA for continuous, chi-square for dichotomous and Kruskal-Wallis for non-parametric variables
  2. Significant p-values highlighted in bold