Gustatory Dysfunction among a Sample of Depressed Egyptian Adults under Antidepressants Therapy: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 4

Descriptive statistics and one-way ANOVA for sour detection and recognition thresholds scores and concentrations among the tested groups.

		Mean	SD	95% CI		Min.	Max.	value
				Lower	Upper
Sour taste_Detection threshold _score	TCA	2.9	1.4	1.9	3.9	1.0	5.0	0.680
	SSRIs	2.4	1.8	1.1	3.7	1.0	5.0
	Psychotherapy	3.0	1.6	1.8	4.2	1.0	5.0
Sour taste_Detection threshold _ conc	TCA	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.0	1.2	0.572
	SSRIs	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.0	1.2
	Psychotherapy	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.8	0.0	1.2
Recognition threshold of Sour taste_score	TCA	3.7	1.7	2.5	4.9	1.0	6.0	0.880
	SSRIs	3.3	1.9	1.9	4.7	1.0	6.0
	Psychotherapy	3.7	2.2	2.0	5.3	1.0	6.0
Recognition threshold of Sour taste_conc	TCA	0.4	0.6	0.0	0.9	0.0	1.2	0.073
	SSRIs	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
	Psychotherapy	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.1