Two raters(JM.T and A.C.W) blind to depressive subtype documented all potentially traumatic events(213) from intake records. Both raters then judged each event as either fitting or not fitting the definition of trauma above, achieving high interrater reliability(K 30.75). All discrepancies(l between judges were resolved by consensus with a third(J.ws.). Thirty-six events were deemed resulting in 177 traumatic events. Patients were then coded for whether they experienced trauma throughout their lifespan lifetime trauma Following completion of coding, presence and dates of traumas were merged with a database that included demographics, Axis I diagnoses depressive subtype, and age at depression onset.
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