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Sex differences in hospitalised depressed patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

H. Hausner ,
M. Wittmann ,
S. Poljansky ,
E. Haen  and
H. Spiessl
H. Hausner
Affiliation:
Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universitaet Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
M. Wittmann
Affiliation:
Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universitaet Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
S. Poljansky
Affiliation:
Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universitaet Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
E. Haen
Affiliation:
Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universitaet Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
H. Spiessl
Affiliation:
Klinik und Poliklinik fuer Psychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie der Universitaet Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Abstract

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Background

Elaborate studies have found sex ratio of patients with depressive disorder tends to decline with increasing age. The aim of this study was to evaluate if the sex ratio of depressed inpatients in Bavaria corresponds with the sex ratio found in epidemiological studies.

Methods

Based on AGATE – due date census for inpatients 2000 – 2004 in Bavaria, we examine the relationship between sex and age on depressive episode (ICD-10: F 32 or F 33). The drug safety program AGATE is supported by 28 psychiatric hospitals in Bavaria. Overall 41,699 patients on 10 target days during 5 years were evaluated. Spearman-correlation was conducted with SPSS.

Results

A total of 7,487 patients were rated as “depressive episode” according to ICD-10. The sex-ratio F/M was 1.9. In the 5. and 6. decade of life the sex-ratio was 1.7. It climbed to a sex-ratio of 2.2 in the 7. decade of life and to 2.6 in the 8. decade of life. The Spearman coefficient of correlation was 0.731 (p=0.018).

Conclusions

Differently from epidemiological studies the predicted reduction of sex differences with increasing age was not found.

Type
FC05. Free Communications: Mood Disorders 2
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 22 , Issue S1: 15th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 15th AEP Congress , March 2007 , pp. S67
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2007
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