Vegetarian diet and mental disorders: results from a representative community survey

Table 5 Descriptive statistics for difference scores of age of onset data and results of t-tests in completely and predominantly vegetarians with mental disorder

Disorders	M^a Δ adoption vegetarian diet and onset of disorder, in years	SD	t (df)	Kolmogorov–Smirnov test
Depressive Disorders	5.56	13.78	3.23 (63)**	1.09ns
Anxiety Disorders	10.26	12.26	6.15 (53)***	1.31ns
Somatoform Disorders and Syndromes	10.83	16.90	4.97 (59)***	0.84ns
Eating Disorders	−1.00	7.37	−0.33 (5) ns	0.43ns

^a positive values indicate that onset of mental disorder preceded adoption of the vegetarian diet.
* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001 two-tailed.

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