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Table 4 Distribution of socio-demographic factors of actual help seeking behavior for depression by socio-demographic characteristics, Jimma University, Ethiopia, November, 2014

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

Factors

Help seeking

COR (95%CI)

P-value

Yes

No

Sex

 Male

42 (44.7%)

52 (55.3%)

2.74 (1.47–5.08)

0.001

 Female

23 (22.8%)

78 (77.2%)

Ref

Age of respondent

 18–27

5 (20.8%)

19 (79.2%)

0.32 (0.1–0.99)

0.49

 28–37

7 (20.6%)

27 (79.4%)

0.31 (0.11–0.86)

0.025

 38–47

10 (40.0%)

15 (60.0%)

0.8 (0.0.29–2.16)

0.66

 48–57

9 (27.3%)

24 (72.2%)

0.45 (0.17–1.18)

0.1

 58–67

20 (45.5%)

24 (54.5%)

Ref

 

 ≥ 68

14 (40.0%)

21 (60.0%)

0.8 (0.32–1.96)

0.63

Marital status

 Married

53 (36.3%)

93 (63.7%)

Ref

 

 Othersa

12 (24.5%)

37 (75.5%)

0.57 (0.27–1.18)

0.13

Ethnicity

 Oromo

53 (34.6%)

100 (65.4%)

Ref

 

 Amhara

5 (26.3%)

14 (73.7%)

0.67 (0.23–1.97)

0.47

 Othersb

7 (30.4%)

16 (69.6%)

0.82 (0.32–2.13)

0.69

Religion

 Muslim

53 (34.6%)

100 (65.4%)

Ref

 

 Christian

12 (28.6%)

30 (71.4%)

0.75 (0.36–1.59)

0.46

Attending place of worship

 Daily

24 (33.8%)

47 (66.2%)

1.33 (0.67–2.65)

0.41

 2–3 times per week

11 (42.3%)

15 (57.7%)

1.91 (0.77–4.77)

0.16

 Once per week

23 (27.7%)

60 (72.3%)

Ref

 

 Less than per week

7 (46.7%)

8 (53.3%)

2.28 (0.74–7.01)

0.15

Educational level

 Illiterate

35 (32.7%)

72 (67.3%)

1.55 (0.70–3.40)

0.27

 Able to read and write only

11 (23.9%)

35 (76.1%)

Ref

 

 Formal education

19 (45.2%)

23 (54.8%)

2.63 (1.10–6.53)

0.037

Annual income of respondent (Birr)

 Less than 900

14 (27.5%)

37 (72.5%)

Ref

 

 900–2999

12 (27.9%)

31 (72.1%)

1.02 (0.413–2.53)

0.96

 3000–9999

16 (32.0%)

34 (68.0%)

1.24 (0.53–2.93)

0.61

 ≥ 10,000

23 (45.1%)

28 (54.9%)

2.17 (0.95–4.96)

 0.06

Occupation

 Unemployed

10 (18.2%)

45 (81.8%)

Ref

 

 Employed

7 (38.9%)

11 (61.1%)

2.86 (0.89–9.22)

0.07

 Farmer

41 (42.7%)

55 (57.3%)

3.35 (1.51–7.43)

0.003

 Othersc

7 (26.9%)

19 (73.1%)

1.66 (0.55–5.00)

0.37

Residence

 Rural

40 (32.2%

84 (67.7%)

Ref

0.67

 Urban

25 (35.2%)

46 (64.8%)

1.14 (0.62–2.11)

  1. a Single, windowed/divorced
  2. b Yem, Tigra, Dawero, Gurage, welayeta and/kefa
  3. c In occupation who are house wife, student and retire
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