From: Treatment gap and help-seeking for postpartum depression in a rural African setting
Characteristics | Help-seeking from health facility | Crude odds ratio (95Â % confidence interval) | AOR(95 % CI) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
 | Yes N (%) | No N (%) |  |  |
Socio-demographic factors | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Age in years (mean = 28.8, SD = 5.23) |  |  | 1.03 (0.97,1.09) | 0.96 (0.88, 1.04) |
Residence | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Rural | 42 (11.6) | 321 (88.4) | 1 | 1 |
 Urban | 7 (31.8) | 15 (68.2) | 3.56 (1.37, 9.25) | 4.39 (1.23, 15.68) |
Education | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 No formal education | 38 (12.3) | 270 (87.7) | 1 | 1 |
 Formal education | 11 (14.3) | 66 (85.7) | 0.84 (0.41, 1.74) | 0.97 (0.37, 2.52) |
Experienced hunger | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Yes | 19 (15.1) | 107 (84.9) | 1.35 (0.73, 2.51) | 0.70 (0.30, 1.67) |
 No | 30 (11.6) | 229 (88.4) | 1 | 1 |
Relative wealth | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Lower | 22 (12.9) | 149 (87.1) | 1 | 1 |
 Same or better | 27 (19.3) | 187 (80.7) | 1.02 (0.56, 1.86) | 0.56 (0.05, 5.36) |
Social support | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Good | 34 (28.8) | 247 (71.2) | 2.65 (1.38, 5.11) | 2.44 (1.30, 4.56) |
 Poor | 15 (14.4) | 89 (85.6) | 1 | 1 |
Perceived cause | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Psychosocial | 15 (6.5) | 216 (93.5) | 4.17 (2.02, 8.59) | 4.24 (1.94, 9.26) |
 Physical | 20 (22.5) | 69 (77.5) | 8.64 (2.76, 27.00) | 6.61 (1.76, 24.80) |
 Supernatural | 6 (37.5) | 10 (62.5) | 2.81 (1.19, 7.05) | 2.85 (1.06, 7.67) |
 I don’t know | 8 (16.3) | 41 (83.7) | 1 | 1 |
Perceived severity | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Severe | 30 (49.3) | 123 (50.7) | 2.73 (1.47, 5.06) | 2.28 (1.41, 5.47) |
 Not severe | 19 (16) | 213 (84) | 1 | 1 |
Perceived need for treatment | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Yes | 46 (17.1) | 223 (82.9) | 1.77 (2.36, 25.53) | 1.46 (1.57, 18.99) |
 No | 3 (5.4) | 113 (94.6) | 1 | 1 |
 Want to solve problem self | 26 (19.9) | 231 (80.1) | 0.24 (0.09, 0.65) | 0.51 (0.30, 0.88) |
 Professional care wouldn’t help | 8 (12.4) | 116 (87.6) | 0.47 (0.25, 0.89) | 0.55 (0.28, 1.09) |
 Thinking no problem | 9 (11.7) | 142 (88.3) | 0.38 (0.20, 0.72) | 0.36 (0.18, 0.71) |
 Concern about what friends think | 17 (42.3) | 78 (57.7) | 2.90 (1.70, 4.94) | 2.45 (1.21, 4.96) |
PHQ score | Â | Â | 1.13 (1.04, 1.23) | 1.14 (1.04, 1.25) |
 WHODAS Score |  |  | 1.45 (1.03, 2.05) | 1.06 (1.00, 1.15) |