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Table 3 Employment status and 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

Employed

Unemployed

p-value

(n = 159)

(n = 74)

(n = 85)

Somatic symptom burden

93 (58.5 %)

36 (48.6 %)

57 (67.1 %)

0.0188*

Major depressive syndrome

42 (26.4 %)

15 (20.3 %)

27 (31.8 %)

0.1010*

Other depressive disorder

71 (44.7 %)

26 (35.1 %)

45 (52.9 %)

0.0243*

Panic disorder

29 (18.2 %)

8 (10.8 %)

21 (24.7 %)

0.0236*

Anxiety disorder

72 (45.3 %)

32 (43.2 %)

40 (47.1 %)

0.6297*

Bulimia nervosa

17 (10.7 %)

10 (13.5 %)

7 (8.2 %)

0.2827*

Binge eating disorder

33 (20.8 %)

16 (21.6 %)

17 (20.0 %)

0.8014*

Alcohol syndrome

10 (6.3 %)

5 (6.8 %)

5 (5.9 %)

1.000b

Median number

2 (IQR = 3)

2 (IQR = 2)

2 (IQR = 3)

0.0345a

  1. Employed participants and early retirees were subsumed as ‘unemployed’
  2. a Wilcoxon signed-rank test
  3. b Fisher’s exact test
  4. * Chi-square test