Symptoms of Depression in Men vs Women

UnHope20 · 2022-06-22T22:46:21+00:00

Importance  When men are depressed they may experience symptoms that are different than what is included in the current diagnostic criteria.

Objective  To explore whether sex disparities in depression rates disappear when alternative symptoms are considered in the place of, or in addition to, more conventional depression symptoms.

Design, Setting, Participants, and Main Outcomes and Measures  Using data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally represented mental health survey, we evaluated sex differences in symptom endorsement in 2 new scales that included alternative depression symptoms. We analyzed sex differences in symptom endorsement us using 2-sided, design-based, . 05-level t tests and multivariate logistic regression to identify predictors of depression.

Results  Men reported higher rates of anger attacks/aggression, substance abuse, and risk taking compared with women. Analyses using the scale that included alternative, male-type symptoms of depression found that a higher proportion of men (26.3%) than women (21.9%) (P = .007) met criteria for depression. Analyses using the scale that included alternative and traditional depression symptoms found that men and women met criteria for depression in equal proportions: 30.6% of men and 33.3% of women (P = .57).

Conclusions and Relevance When alternative and traditional symptoms are combined, sex disparities in the prevalence of depression are eliminated. Further study is needed to clarify which symptoms truly describe men’s experiences of depression.

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Kuato2012 · 2022-06-23T13:46:16+00:00

Some people complain that medicine is too male-centric and has a tendency to treat women as smaller versions of men. I can't vouch for whether that is true, but in this specific instance, it appears that the exact opposite is true: depression, as most people understand it, is widely known and characterized by its female-presenting symptoms!

Title	Symptoms of Depression in Men vs Women
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	17
Comments	2
Date	June 22, 2022 5:38 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
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