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Table 3 Clinician diagnosis of depression as a function of selected clinical and demographic characteristics of study participants

From: Recognition of depression by primary care clinicians in rural Ethiopia

Characteristics

Total n(%)

Depression n(%)

Other psychiatric morbidity n(%)

Depression and other psychiatric morbidity n(%)

Severity measured with PHQ9 score

  < 5

578(57.2)

0 (0.0)

4(0.7)

4(0.7)

 5–9

315 (31.2)

6(1.9)

14(4.4)

20(6.3)

 10 + a

117(11.6)

7(6.0)

7(6.0)

14(12.0)

Suicidality

 Yesa

100(9.9)

6 (6.0)

8(8.0)

14(14.0)

 No

910(90.1)

7(0.8)

17(1.9)

24(2.6)

Sex

 Male

461(45.6)

4(0.9)

16(3.5)

20(4.3)

 Female

549(54.4)

9(1.6)

9(1.6)

18(3.3 )

Education

 Non-literate

398(39.4)

4(1.0)

7(1.8)

11(2.8)

 Literate but no formal education

124(12.3)

0(0.0)

3(2.4)

3(2.4)

 Formal Education

488(48.3)

9(1.8)

15(3.1)

24(4.9)

  1. aDifferences statistically significant [Fisher’s exact p <0.001]