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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the three subject groups.

From: Personality styles in patients with fibromyalgia, major depression and healthy controls

 

Fibromyalgia

Major depression

Healthy controls

 

Total (N = 44)

Nondepressed (N = 19)

(N = 43)

(N = 41)

 

M (SD)

M (SD)

M (SD)

M (SD)

Age (years)

47.3 (12.6)

47.9 (10.9)

38.1 (9.6)

37.8 (11.2)

Symptom duration

13.2 (10.6)

12.9 (9.8)

10.4a (8.9)

0.0 (0.0)

Beck Depression

    

Inventory

14.9 (10.1)

10.9 (8.0)

24.1 (6.5)

2.3 (2.6)

 

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Female gender

41 (93.2)

17 (89.5)

29 (67.4)

27 (73.0)

  1. Note: a = symptom duration was calculated on the basis of the first onset of a major depressive episode.