Table 1 Sociodemographic and any common mental disorder characteristics of participants attending monk healers and primary care health centres (N = 1251)
Variable | Monk healer | Health centre | P value | Monk healer | Health centre | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sample | Sample | CMD | CMD | |||
M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | M (SD) | |||
Age in years | 47.3 (13.8) | 53.3 (14.1) | < 0.001 | 45.1 (13.5) | 56.2 (14.4) | < 0.001 |
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
All | 607 (48.5) | 644 (51.5) | 181 (31.1) | 138 (22.3) | ||
Sex | ||||||
Female | 465 (76.6) | 469 (72.8) | 0.254 | 152 (84.0) | 99 (71.7) | 0.007 |
Male | 142 (23.4) | 175 (27.2) | 29 (16.0) | 39 (28.3) | ||
Formal education | ||||||
Primary or less | 225 (38.5) | 404 (64.6) | < 0.001 | 57 (32.6) | 110 (80.3) | < 0.001 |
Secondary | 185 (31.7) | 166 (26.6) | 63 (36.0) | 21 (15.3) | ||
Post-secondary | 174 (29.8) | 55 (8.8) | 55 (31.4) | 6 (4.4) | ||
Marital status | ||||||
Single/divorced/separated/widowed | 250 (41.7) | 145 (22.9) | < 0.001 | 97 (54.2) | 31 (22.8) | < 0.001 |
Married | 350 (58.3) | 489 (77.1) | 82 (45.8) | 105 (77.2) | ||
Employment status | ||||||
No | 192 (32.0) | 169 (26.4) | 0.127 | 69 (39.2) | 59 (43.4) | 0.457 |
Yes | 408 (68.0) | 467 (73.6) | 107 (60.8) | 77 (56.6) | ||
In debt | ||||||
No/little | 436 (71.8) | 474 (73.6) | 0.481 | 124 (68.5) | 57 (31.5) | 0.002 |
High | 171 (28.2) | 170 (26.4) | 57 (31.5) | 67 (48.6) | ||
Social support | ||||||
Low | 106 (17.7) | 106 (16.7) | < 0.001 | 49 (27.1) | 49 (35.8) | 0.201 |
Medium | 280 (46.7) | 395 (62.3) | 75 (41.4) | 54 (39.4) | ||
High | 213 (35.6) | 133 (21.0) | 57 (31.5) | 34 (24.8) | ||