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Table 6 Distribution of help seeking behavior for depression disorders in related to behavioral and psycho-social factors of CVD patients JUTH, Jimma December 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

Living condition

 With family

60 (34.5%)

114 (65.5%)

Ref

 

 Othersa

5 (23.8%)

16 (76.2%)

1.68 (0.59–4.80)

0.33

Social support

 Poor

23 (26.4%)

64 (73.6%)

2.45 (1.16–5.16)

0.019

 Moderate

20 (32.8%)

41 (67.2%)

1.80 (0.82–3.95)

0.14

 Strong

22 (46.8%)

25 (53.2%)

Ref

 

Information mental illness

 Yes

45 (38.8%)

71 (61.2%)

Ref

 

 No

20 (25.3%)

59 (74.7%)

1.87 (1.02–3.51)

0.051

Source of information about mental illness

 Neighborhood

22 (38.6%)

35 (61.4%)

0.88 (0.32–1.97)

0.75

 Religious leader

7 (41.2%)

10 (58.8%)

0.79 (0.25–2.47)

0.68

 Mass media

16 (35.6%)

29 (64.4)

Ref

 

 I did not hear information

20 (26.3%)

56 (73.7%)

1.54 (0.69–3.42)

0.28

Presence of mental illness in the family

 Yes

28 (65.1%)

15 (34.9%)

Ref

0.001

 No

37 (24.3%)

115 (75.7%)

5.8 (2.8–12.02)

Availability of MI service in this hospital

 Yes

43 (39.4%)

66 (60.6%)

Ref

0.04

 No

22 (25.6%)

64 (74.4%)

2.0 (1.02–3.52)

Believe of respondent about Case of MI

 Bad/evil sprit

6 (35.3%)

11 (64.7%)

1.10 (0.36–3.32)

0.87

 Stress

27 (31.4%)

59 (68.8%)

1.31 (0.68–2.52)

0.42

 Genetic predisposition

5 (25.0%)

15 (75.0%)

1.80 (0.58–5.51)

0.3

 More than one of the above

27 (37.5%)

45 (62.5%)

Ref

 

Life time cigarette use

 Yes

10 (47.6%)

11 (52.4%)

0.58 (0.20–1.27)

0.15

 No

55 (31.6%)

119 (68.4%)

Ref

Current cigarette use

 No

60 (32.8%)

124 (67.2)

Ref

 

 Yes

5 (41.7%)

6 (58.3%)

0.58 (0.17–1.98)

0.38

Life time alcohol use

 Yes

9 (47.4%)

10 (52.6%)

0.52 (0.20–2.34)

0.48

 No

56 (31.8%)

120 (66.7%)

Ref

Current alcohol use

 No

60 (32.8%)

123 (67.2%)

Ref

 

 Yes

5 (41.7%)

7 (58.3%)

0.68 (0.21–2.24)

0.53

Life time khat use

 Yes

24 (43.6%)

31 (56.4%)

0.54 (0.21–1.02)

0.05

 No

41 (29.3%)

99 (70.7%)

Ref

Current khat use

 No

60 (33.1%)

121 (66.9%)

Ref

 

 Yes

5 (35.7%)

9 (64.3%)

0.89 (0.29–2.78)

0.85

  1. Othersa -living alone, live with relative and homeless