Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Indices of various depression problems in men and women bitten by dog or bitten/scratched by a cat

From: Cat scratches, not bites, are associated with unipolar depression - cross-sectional study

	Dog bitten		Cat bitten		Cat scratched
			Women
	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p
Attended neurology	−0.008	0.578	0.022	0.112	0.037	0.006
Attended psychiatry	0.028	0.041	0.074	0.000	0.059	0.000
Attended psychotherapy	0.032	0.019	0.034	0.012	−0.001	0.950
Taking antidepressants	−0.001	0.929	0.014	0.302	0.031	0.019
Neurological problems	0.058	0.000	0.047	0.000	0.046	0.000
Mental health problems	0.054	0.000	0.092	0.000	0.091	0.000
Unipolar depression	0.014	0.285	0.027	0.041	0.046	0.000
Bipolar disorder	0.026	0.048	0.008	0.536	0.010	0.464
Beck depression score	0.040	0.002	0.062	0.000	0.081	0.000
			Men
	Tau	p	Tau	p	Tau	p
Attended neurology	0.060	0.001	−0.023	0.220	−0.015	0.438
Attended psychiatry	−0.010	0.592	0.033	0.078	0.036	0.054
Attended psychotherapy	0.055	0.004	0.001	0.953	0.070	0.000
Taking antidepressants	−0.046	0.012	0.025	0.168	0.020	0.279
Neurological problems	0.085	0.000	0.017	0.350	0.073	0.000
Mental health problems	0.049	0.008	0.092	0.000	0.042	0.021
Unipolar depression	0.002	0.924	0.050	0.006	0.018	0.334
Bipolar disorder	0.008	0.660	−0.015	0.415	−0.003	0.873
Beck depression score	0.046	0.009	0.056	0.001	0.068	0.000

The table shows results of partial Kendall analysis with age of subjects as covariate. Significant results and trends (p < 0.1) are printed in bold. Positive Kendall Tau means positive relation between the variables. P value 0.000 means P < 0.001. No correction for multiple tests were performed, however, theoretical number of false positive tests should be 2–3, not 33

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