Research Article

Latent Class Analysis in Depression, Including Clinical and Functional Variables: Evidence of a Complex Depressive Subtype in Primary Care in Chile

Table 1

Sociodemographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics in 297 Chilean PHC patients.

Sociodemographic characteristics

Sex%
Women26087,5

Scholarship%
Less than high school11839.7
High school/partial high school12341.4
College/partial college5618.9

Other features%
Lives with partner13545.4
Lives alone3612.2
Employed with income3913.2

MeanStandard deviation
Age47,515

Clinical characteristics of depression

MeanStandard deviation
Age at the first episode (years)30.717.2
Number of depressive episodes3.644.2
Duration of the longest episode (years)3.587.2
Depressive symptoms at baseline HDRS (points)204.6

%
History of suicide attempt9632.3
History of previous depression treatment9431.6

Comorbidities

Biomedical%
0 13344.8
1 6421.4
3 5618,8
More than 3 4415.0

Psychiatric%
0 4715,8
1 5819.5
2 5719.1
3 5418.1
More than 3 8127.2

Adverse life experiences

IPVEs intimate partner violence events (entire adult life)%
0 12441.8
1 196.3
2 144.7
3 or more 14047.2

CTEs childhood trauma experiences%
0 5318.0
1 4816.2
2 5016.8
3 4916.4
4 or more 9732.6

LEs life adverse experiences prior six months

0 237.6
1 6321.1
2 6522.1
3 4816.2.
4 or more 9833.0