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 | | % | Women | 260 | 87,5 |
| Scholarship | | % | Less than high school | 118 | 39.7 | High school/partial high school | 123 | 41.4 | College/partial college | 56 | 18.9 |
| Other features | | % | Lives with partner | 135 | 45.4 | Lives alone | 36 | 12.2 | Employed with income | 39 | 13.2 |
| | Mean | Standard deviation | Age | 47,5 | 15 |
| Clinical characteristics of depression |
| | Mean | Standard deviation | Age at the first episode (years) | 30.7 | 17.2 | Number of depressive episodes | 3.64 | 4.2 | Duration of the longest episode (years) | 3.58 | 7.2 | Depressive symptoms at baseline HDRS (points) | 20 | 4.6 |
| | | % | History of suicide attempt | 96 | 32.3 | History of previous depression treatment | 94 | 31.6 |
| Comorbidities |
| Biomedical | | % | 0 | 133 | 44.8 | 1 | 64 | 21.4 | 3 | 56 | 18,8 | More than 3 | 44 | 15.0 |
| Psychiatric | | % | 0 | 47 | 15,8 | 1 | 58 | 19.5 | 2 | 57 | 19.1 | 3 | 54 | 18.1 | More than 3 | 81 | 27.2 |
| Adverse life experiences |
| IPVEs intimate partner violence events (entire adult life) | | % | 0 | 124 | 41.8 | 1 | 19 | 6.3 | 2 | 14 | 4.7 | 3 or more | 140 | 47.2 |
| CTEs childhood trauma experiences | | % | 0 | 53 | 18.0 | 1 | 48 | 16.2 | 2 | 50 | 16.8 | 3 | 49 | 16.4 | 4 or more | 97 | 32.6 |
| LEs life adverse experiences prior six months | | |
| 0 | 23 | 7.6 | 1 | 63 | 21.1 | 2 | 65 | 22.1 | 3 | 48 | 16.2. | 4 or more | 98 | 33.0 |
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