Care-Seeking Pattern among Persons with Depression and Anxiety: A Population-Based Study in Sweden

Table 1

Description of the study sample and stratified by depressive or anxiety disorder status (𝑛=8387).

	All (𝑛=8387)	No depression and/or anxiety (𝑛=6361)	Depression (𝑛=465)	Anxiety (𝑛=751)	Depression and anxiety (𝑛=810)
	%	%	%	%	%
Gender
Male	42.4	45.3	33.8	38.2	28.8
Female	57.6	54.7	66.2	61.8	71.2
Age
23–35 years	28.7	26,9	36.4	34.4	33.0
36–55 years	44.8	44.7	42.7	44.8	47.9
56–68 years	26.4	28,4	20.9	20.8	19.1
Median	45 years	46 years	40 years	43 years	43 years
Born abroad	9.3	8.7	10.3	10.7	12.8
Household composition
Living with partner	67.7	70.5	54.8	66.2	54.1
Living with parents	2.4	2.4	1.9	2.3	2.8
Living with other	2.2	2.0	2.4	3.5	2.6
Single	27.7	25.0	40.9	28.1	40.5
Children in household	43.0	43.6	38.7	43.1	40.9
Education
Basic compulsory education or less	15.5	14.8	19.8	13.3	20.6
Secondary school	40.0	39.9	41.3	39.7	39.6
University or college	44.5	45.3	38.9	47.0	39.8
Labour market position
Employment/self-employed/on leave/studies/parental leave	85.7	87.2	80.9	87.7	76.2
Unemployment/labour market policy measures	2.7	2.1	3.9	2.9	6.8
Retirement pension	6.1	6.9	4.1	3.3	3.3
Sick leave/disability pension	4.4	2.9	10.1	5.2	12.6
Other	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.7	1.0
Close friendship	94.4	95.9	89.7	93.9	86.4
Somatic illness	32.0	28.6	42.4	36.4	48.3
Hazardous alcohol use	19.6	16.3	29.2	26.7	33.8
Depression severity
Minor depression	3.5		37.2		18.3
Major depression	2.1		62.8		33.6
Disability last 30 days due to psychological symptoms	7.6	3.1	19.5	8.4	35.0

All differences within each variable showed significance when tested with chi-square.