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Table 1 Characteristics of studies on depression in prisoners which are incorporated in the narrative as well as meta-analysis according to author first name, year of publication, setting of study, design, sample size, assessment instrument, study population and magnitude of depression

From: A meta-analysis of depressive symptoms among Ethiopian prisoners and a narrative description of its associated factors: a country based systematic review and meta-analysis study

Author, year

Location of prison

Study design

Sample size

Tool (cutoff point)

Study population

Depression(%)(n)

Sampling Method

Alemayehu et al. 2019 [20]

Amhara, northwest Ethiopia

CS

402

PHQ-9(≥5)

Prisoners

45.5(n = 183)

Simple random

Reta et al. 2019 [25]

Amhara region

CS

336

PHQ-9(> 5)

Prisoners

44(n = 148)

Simple random

Beyen et al. 2017 [22]

Amhara, northwest Ethiopia

CS

649

PHQ-9

Prisoners

43.8(n = 284)

Multi-stage-random

Abdu et al. 2018 [23].

Oromia, south west Ethiopia

CS

332

BDI-II

Prisoners

41.9(n = 139)

Systematic sampling

Agegnew et al. 2019 [24]

Southern Ethiopia

CS

327

BDI-II

Prisoners

89(n = 291)

Systematic sampling

Bedaso et al. 2018 [21]

Southern Ethiopia

CS

335

PHQ-9(≥5)

Prisoners

56.4(n = 189)

Simple random

Getaneh et al. 2019 [26]

Addis Ababa, central Ethiopia

CS

400

PHQ-9(≥5)

HIV-positive prisoners

66.5(n = 266)

Simple random

Tefera, 2018 [28]

Addis Ababa, central Ethiopia

CS and qualitative

84

BDI-II

Women inmates

51.6(43)

Systematic sampling

Tirfeneh.et al. 2018 [10]

Oromia, south west Ethiopia

CS

336

BDI-II ≥ 14

prisoners

41.9(141)

Systematic sampling

  1. Key: BDI II: Beck depression inventory II, CS: Cross-sectional, HIV: Human Immune-Virus, PHQ-9: Patient Health Questionnaire-9