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A subset of data from Wheaton, Rozell, and Hall (1997) measuring the relation between age of first depressive episode and several childhood and adult traumatic stressors in a random sample of 1393 adults living in metropolitan Toronto, Ontario. Age of first depressive episode and traumatic stressors was determined through a structured interview.

Usage

first_depression_1

Format

A person-period data frame with 36997 rows and 7 columns:

id

Participant ID.

age

Age each record corresponds to.

event

Binary indicator for whether and when the adult experienced a depressive episode.

censor

Censoring status.

parental_divorce

Binary indicator for whether the adult's parents divorced at this or any previous age.

female

Binary indicator for whether the adult is a female.

siblings

Number of siblings.

Source

Wheaton, B., Roszell, P., & Hall, K. (1997). The impact of twenty childhood and adult traumatic stressors on the risk of psychiatric disorder. In I. H. Gotlib & B. Wheaton (Eds.), Stress and adversity over the life course: Trajectories and turning points (pp. 50–72). New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527623.003