2.8. Baseline Assessments
MDD, psychiatric, depressive disorder
DISORDERS
Each participant was asked to produce their prescribed drug formulation sheet, endorsed by their private/public psychiatrists in order to confirm their psychiatric diagnosis of MDD. Diagnosis of major depressive disorder (MDD) was confirmed using the structured clinical interview for diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (SCID-5). Demographic data including age, gender, educational attainment, marital status, employment status, occupation, duration of possessing MDD, drug-taking (years/months), and family household income were all solicited.