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International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 2 Demographic information of participants’ carers

From: A comparison of the 33-item Hypomania Checklist with the 33-item Hypomania Checklist-external assessment for the detection of bipolar disorder in adolescents

Variables

Whole sample (n = 260)

Carers of MDD patients (n = 113)

Carers of BD patients (n = 147)

Carers for BD vs carers for MDD patients

N

%

N

%

N

%

χ2

P

Male gender

58

22.31

27

23.89

31

21.09

0.290

0.590

Unemployed

33

12.69

11

9.73

22

14.97

1.578

0.209

Married

244

93.85

108

95.58

136

92.52

1.035

0.309

 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Z*

P

Age (years)

43.10

5.28

43.09

6.42

43.10

4.22

–

0.348

Education level (years)

13.71

3.02

14.02

3.14

13.47

2.91

–

0.062

  1. BD Bipolar Disorder, MDD Major Depressive Disorder, SD standard deviation
  2. *Mann–Whitney U test
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