Relation between dysthymia with MDD and stressful life events.

The table shows the result of assessing the relationship between dysthymia and life events that were reported to precede the first onset of dysthymia, within cases of major depression. The table gives the P-value, odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for logistic regression and sixteen stressful life events, and childhood sexual abuse (reported as either non genital, genital or intercourse). The last two columns show the percentage of cases reporting each event, regardless of the age of onset. ‘Dysthymia’ refers to MDD cases with dysthymia and ‘No dysthymia’ refers to MDD without dysthymia. The thresholds for P-values corrected for multiple testing are shown as *p<0.05 **p<0.01 ***p<0.001.