Clinical effects of nonconvulsive electrotherapy combined with mindfulness-based stress reduction and changes of serum inflammatory factors in depression

Table 1 Comparison of baseline data

Baseline information	Observer group (n = 70)	Control group (n = 70)	χ2/t value	P value
Sexuality [n (%)]			0.029	0.866
Males	37 (52.86)	36 (51.43)
Females	33 (47.14)	34 (48.57)
Age (mean ± SD/yr)	44.62 ± 9.58	46.37 ± 9.42	1.090	0.278
Course of disease (mean ± SD/yr)	4.39 ± 0.44	4.31 ± 0.65	0.853	0.395
HAMD (mean ± SD/score)	30.88 ± 4.16	29.65 ± 3.72	1.844	0.067

HAMD: Hamilton Depression Scale.