A Preliminary Study of the Influence of Age of Onset and Childhood Trauma on Cortical Thickness in Major Depressive Disorder

Table 2

Characteristics of childhood abuse and nonabuse MDD groups.

Characteristics	Nonabuse MDD group	Abuse MDD group
𝑁	19	12
Sex (F/M)	10/9	8/4
Age (yrs.)	36.4 ± 12.6	40.0 ± 9.5
Baseline HAMD17	21.2 ± 4.0	24.7 ± 3.9
Duration of current MDE (yrs.)	4.7 ± 5.2	5.4 ± 6.1
Time since MDD onset (yrs.)	11.1 ± 9.4	11.9 ± 9.1
MDD onset (yrs.)	25.3 ± 11.1	28.1 ± 7.3
CTQTotal	51.0 ± 6.1	62.9 ± 11.1
CTQ “neglect” score	39.8 ± 5.6	42.5 ± 6.5
CTQ “abuse” score	11.2 ± 1.1	21.3 ± 6.7

CTQ: Childhood Trauma Questionnaire; CTQ “neglect” score: emotional neglect + physical neglect + emotional abuse; CTQ “abuse” score: physical abuse + sexual abuse; HAMD₁₇: Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; MDD: major depressive disorder; MDE: major depressive episode; means ± SDs presented.