Maternal depression symptoms are highly prevalent among food-insecure households in Ethiopia
Maternal depression symptoms are highly prevalent among food-insecure households in Ethiopia
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DOI:
10.1017/s1368980017003056
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发表时间:
2018-04-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Lindtjorn, Bernt
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作者:
Gebreyesus, Seifu Hagos;Endris, Bilal Shikur;Lindtjorn, Bernt
Objective: We aimed to evaluate the association between household food insecurity and maternal depression in Ethiopia.Design/Setting/Subjects: In 2014, we conducted a cross-sectional study in southern Ethiopia, including 591 food-secure and 2500 food-insecure households. We measured depression status of women using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 validated for Ethiopia, with a cut-off of >= 5. We evaluated household-level food insecurity using a validated Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. We applied Bayesian modelling to evaluate the relationship between food insecurity and maternal depression accounting for other observed characteristics.Results: Among the analytic sample, 80.8 (95 % CI 79.4, 82.2) % of women were living in food-insecure households. The overall prevalence of probable depression (mild and moderate forms) was 4.7 (95 % CI 4.1, 5.6) %. All individual depressive symptoms had a significantly higher prevalence in the food-insecure group, except for suicidal ideation (but small numbers; P