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Sex and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey, I: lifetime prevalence, chronicity and recurrence
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Basic epidemiologic prevalence data are presented on sex differences in DSM-III-R major depressive episodes (MDE). The data come from the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), the first survey in the U.S. to administer a structured psychiatric interview to a nationally representative sample of the general population. Consistent with previous research, women are approximately 1.7 times as likely as men to report a lifetime history of MDE. Age of onset analysis shows that this sex difference begins in early adolescence and persists through the mid-50s. Women also have a much higher rate of 12-month depression than men. However, women with a history of depression do not differ from men with a history of depression in either the probability of being chronically depressed in the past year or in the probability of having an acute recurrence in the past year. This means that the higher prevalence of 12-month depression among women than men is largely due to women having a higher risk of first onset. The implications of these results for future research are discussed in a closing section of the paper.
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Sex and depression in the National Comorbidity Survey. II: cohort effects
Kessler, R. C., McGonagle, K. A., Nelson, C. B., Hughes, M., Swartz, M., & Blazer, D. G. (1994) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/0165-0327(94)90147-3 · Cited by 486
Self-citationThe gender paradox in suicidal behavior and its impact on the suicidal process
Schrijvers, D. L., Bollen, J., & Sabbe, B. G. C. (2012) · Journal of Affective Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jad.2011.03.050 · Cited by 477
Sociodemographics, self-rated health, and mortality in the US
Franks, P. J., Gold, M. R., & Fiscella, K. A. (2003) · Social Science & Medicine · doi:10.1016/s0277-9536(02)00281-2 · Cited by 481
Risk factors for depression: an autobiographical review
Hammen, C. (2018) · Annual Review of Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-050817-084811 · Cited by 483
“…or sexual abuse; exposure to family violence; parental criminality; and parental substance abuse or mental illness) or in relation to more specific events, such as maltreatment, and the relationship of these events to depression (e.g., Green et al. 2010, Kessler et al. 2010, Lindert et al. 2014).”
BackgroundSex differences in cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
Li, R., & Singh, M. (2014) · Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2014.01.002 · Cited by 527
“Although women have higher rates of depression and anxiety, and these are emerging as risk factors for AD (Kessler et al., 1993; Thielscher et al., 2013), one longitudinal study evaluating more than 1300 subjects found the depression is a risk factor for AD only in men, and not in women (Dal Forno…”
BackgroundVerhagen, M., van der Meij, A., van Deurzen, P. A. M., Janzing, J. G. E., Arias-Vásquez, A., Buitelaar, J. K., & Franke, B. (2010) · Molecular Psychiatry · doi:10.1038/mp.2008.109 · Cited by 470
Noble, R. E. (2005) · Metabolism · doi:10.1016/j.metabol.2005.01.014 · Cited by 467
Walf, A. A., & Frye, C. A. (2006) · Neuropsychopharmacology · doi:10.1038/sj.npp.1301067 · Cited by 477
“Women are twice as likely to experience major depression, particularly unipolar depression, compared to men (Earls, 1987; Kessler et al, 1993; Nolen-Hoeksema, 1987).”
BackgroundPrediction of Differential Adult Health Burden by Conduct Problem Subtypes in Males
Odgers, C. L., Caspi, A., Broadbent, J. M., Dickson, N. P., Hancox, R. J., Harrington, H., Poulton, R., Sears, M. R., Thomson, W. M., & Moffitt, T. E. (2007) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.64.4.476 · Cited by 460
“Prevalence rates in the Dunedin cohort are similar to those from American epidemiological surveys.(30,31) For this report, we examined grouped anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, and simple phobia), major depressive disorder, canna…”
ResultTime trends in adolescent mental health
Collishaw, S., Maughan, B., Goodman, R., & Pickles, A. (2004) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00335.x · Cited by 508
Teen‐aged mothers in contemporary Britain
Moffitt, T. E., & the E‐Risk Study Team (2002) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00082 · Cited by 439
Socioeconomic status in childhood and the lifetime risk of major depression
Gilman, S. E., Kawachi, I. I., Fitzmaurice, G. M., & Buka, S. L. (2002) · International Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/ije/31.2.359 · Cited by 454
Costello, E. J., Foley, D. L., & Angold, A. C. (2005) · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · doi:10.1097/01.chi.0000184929.41423.c0 · Cited by 438
Sex Differences in Vulnerability and Resilience to Stress Across the Life Span
Hodes, G. E., & Epperson, C. N. (2019) · Biological Psychiatry · doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.04.028 · Cited by 417
“Finally, the majority of basic research examining the mechanisms of resilience has done so only in male animals (12) when the majority of humans experiencing stress-related disorders are female (13, 14).”
BackgroundPregnancy Outcome Following Maternal Use of the New Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Kulin, N. A., Pastuszak, A. L., Sage, S. R., Schick-Boschetto, B., Spivey, G., Feldkamp, M. L., Ormond, K. E., Matsui, D. M., Schechtman, A. S., Cook, L. P., et al. (1998) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.279.8.609 · Cited by 423
Gonadal steroid hormones and the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis
Handa, R. J., & Weiser, M. J. (2014) · Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology · doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2013.11.001 · Cited by 408
“Of importance for this discussion are the findings that a number of human neuropsychiatric disorders are accompanied by a dysregulation of the HPA axis and that many of these disorders exhibit profound sex differences in risk implicating a modulatory role for gonadal steroid hormones (Kessler et al., 1993; Kessler, 20…”
BackgroundInfluentialMaternal Depression and Children’s Antisocial Behavior: Nature and Nurture Effects
Kim-Cohen, J., Moffitt, T. E., Taylor, A., Pawlby, S. J., & Caspi, A. (2005) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.62.2.173 · Cited by 417
“However, a recent study found no significant difference in levels of depression between mothers of twins vs singletons.(70) Moreover, the lifetime prevalence rate we report for E-Risk Study mothers in their early 30s (33%) is comparable with that reported by Kendler et al(71) in a population-based sample of women in t…”
ResultDepression scale scores in 8–17‐year‐olds: effects of age and gender
Angold, A. C., Erkanli, A., Silberg, J. L., Eaves, L. J., & Costello, E. J. (2002) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00232 · Cited by 434
“…Catchment Area (ECA) studies (Burke et al., 1990) suggested that unipolar depression onset rates were equal in males and females until age 15–19, while the National Comorbidity Survey (NCS; Kessler et al., 1993) provided evidence for the emergence of an onset differential by age 10–14.”
BackgroundInfluentialEthnocultural Differences in Prevalence of Adolescent Depression
ROBERTS, R. E., Roberts, C. R., & Chen, Y. R. (1997) · American Journal of Community Psychology · doi:10.1023/a:1024649925737 · Cited by 409
Prevalence of Depressive Disorders in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis
Hudson, C. C., Hall, L., & Harkness, K. L. (2019) · Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10802-018-0402-1 · Cited by 411
Everyday stressors and gender differences in daily distress
Almeida, D. M., & Kessler, R. C. (1998) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.670 · Cited by 406
Self-citationGater, R., Tansella, M., Korten, A., Tiemens, B. G., Mavreas, V. G., & Olatawura, M. O. (1998) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.55.5.405 · Cited by 390
“Previous research has suggested that varying the number of symptoms required for a diagnosis of depression alters the ratio of women to men.(37,38) Thus, our findings may to some extent be the product of sex differences in the conceptualization and reporting of symptoms of depression and anxiety, rather than real diff…”
Background
Metadata
- Authors
- Kessler, R.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kessler, R
- ORCID
- Kessler, R
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1993-11
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 85-96
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1992284534
- Cited by
- 2,207
- References
- 67
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 21.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- State University of New York
- Johns Hopkins University
- York University
- University of Toronto
- National Institute of Mental Health (5RO1 MH46376, R01MH046376, MH 46376, 90135190)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- sex differences, major depressive episode, depression prevalence, chronic depression, depression recurrence, age of onset, National Comorbidity Survey, men and women
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Chronic Disease, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Assessment, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Recurrence, Sex Factors, United States, Cohort Studies, Comorbidity, Incidence
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