Help-seeking behaviour for depressive disorders among adult cardiovascular outpatient cardiac clinic Jimma University Teaching Hospital, Jimma, South-West Ethiopia: crosssectional study

Table 2 Illness related characteristic of cardiovascular patients in outpatient cardiac clinic JUTH south west Ethiopia, December 2014

Factors	Frequency (n = 33 9)	Percent
History of suicidal thought
Yes	24	7.1
No	315	92.9
Suicidal ideation
Yes	41	12.1
No	298	87.9
Comorbidity other than heart disease
Yes	168	49.6
No	174	50.4
Diagnosis
HHD	118	34.8
IHD^a	95	28.0
Cardiomyopathy	48	14.2
VHD/RF	34	10.0
DHD	29	8.6
Cor-plumonary	10	2.9
Others^b	5	1.5
Duration of CVD disease
< 1 year	82	24.2
1–3 years	90	26.5
4–5 years	70	20.6
6–7 years	44	13.0
≥ 7 years	53	15.6

HHD—hypertensive related heart disease, VHD—vulvular heart diseases, and RF—heart disease due to rheumatic fever and DHD—diabetic related heart disease
^a Ischemic heart disease (IHD), acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction and angina
Others^b arrhythmia and thyrotoxicosis

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