Comparison of Sexual Experience and Behavior between Bipolar Outpatients and Outpatients without Mood Disorders

Table 1

Demographics: statistics are the -test for continuous measures and the Fisher’s Exact Test for categorical measures.

Demographic measures	Bipolar disorders		Comparison
					Group effect
	Mean	sd	Mean	sd		df
Age	41.6	(13.2)	42.2	(14.3)	0.17	74	0.869
Hollingshead occupation code	7.4	(1.5)	8.1	(1.2)	2.10	67	0.040
Hollingshead SES	55.6	(8.6)	60.1	(6.7)	2.43	67	0.018
	%		%		Fisher’s Exact
Gender (female %  and  )	50	(16)	41	(18)	0.488
Education level
High school/GED	3	(1)	0	(0)
Some college	9	(3)	7	(3)
B.A./B.S. degree	47	(15)	36	(16)
Graduate school	41	(13)	57	(25)	0.364
Current employment status
Retired	9	(3)	5	(2)	0.644
Homemaker	16	(5)	2	(1)	0.077
Unemployed	16	(5)	9	(4)	0.480
Student	9	(3)	14	(6)	0.726
Race
White	88	(28)	96	(42)
Black	3	(1)	0	(0)
Asian/PAC. ISL	3	(5)	5	(2)
Other	6	(2)	0	(0)	0.215
Hispanic	13	(4)	2	(1)	0.233
Marital status
Married	38	(12)	48	(21)
Single	53	(17)	46	(20)
Widowed/divorced	9	(3)	7	(3)	0.678
Live-in partner	56	(18)	57	(25)	1.0
Religion
Protestant	28	(9)	30	(13)
Catholic	19	(6)	14	(6)
Jewish	28	(9)	43	(19)
Other	6	(2)	7	(3)
None	19	(6)	7	(3)	0.460

indicates significance and trend.