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Table 2 Gender-specific distribution of psychiatric syndromes

From: Presurgical assessment of bariatric patients with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)—A screening of the prevalence of psychosocial comorbidity

Syndrome

All

Women (n = 104)

Men (n = 55)

p-value

(n = 159)

Somatic symptom burden

93 (58.5 %)

68 (65.4 %)

25 (45.5 %)

0.015*

Major depressive syndrome

42 (26.4 %)

29 (27.9 %)

13 (23.6 %)

0.563*

Other depressive disorder

71 (44.7 %)

50 (48.1 %)

21 (38.2 %)

0.233*

Panic disorder

29 (18.2 %)

21 (20.2 %)

8 (14.6 %)

0.381*

Anxiety disorder

72 (45.3 %)

56 (53.9 %)

16 (29.1 %)

0.003*

Bulimia nervosa

17 (10.7 %)

13 (12.5 %)

4 (7.3 %)

0.310*

Binge eating disorder

33 (20.8 %)

25 (24.0 %)

8 (14.6 %)

0.160*

Alcohol syndrome

10 (6.3 %)

4 (3.9 %)

6 (10.9 %)

0.081*

Median number

2 (IQR = 3)

3 (IQR = 3)

1 (IQR = 2)

0.007a

  1. a Wilcoxon signed-rank test
  2. * Chi-square test