| 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 |
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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 | Â |
Short-term absence | 26.5 | 32.8 | 35.2 | 28.2 | Â |
Long-term absence | 5.6 | 17.4 | 11.1 | 19.4 | Â |
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 | Â |
Reduced work performance | 15.7 | 29.7 | 22.2 | 26.2 | Â |
Impaired work performance | 8.0 | 33.8 | 31.5 | 41.7 | Â |
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 |