Background
Materials and methods
Setting and participants
Validation
Content validity
Criterion validity
Study procedure
Data analyses
Ethical approval
Results
Sample characteristics
Age | Mean (SD) |
---|---|
Mean age in years | 53.8 (11.4) |
Gender | n (%) |
Female | 244 (75.5) |
Male | 79 (24.5) |
Education | |
No education | 27 (8.4) |
Primary school | 153 (47.4) |
Secondary | 127 (39.3) |
Tertiary | 16 (5.0) |
Marital status | |
Married | 249 (77.0) |
Never married | 8 (2.5) |
Widowed | 50 (15.5) |
Separated/divorced | 16 (5.0) |
Employment Status | |
Unemployed | 179 (55.4) |
Student | 1 (0.3) |
Employed | 64 (19.8) |
Micro & Small scale Enterprise | 79 (24.5) |
Religious affiliation | |
Christian | 305 (94.4) |
Moslem | 17 (5.3) |
None | 1 (0.3) |
Prevalence of depression
Performance of the patient health Questionnaire-9
Cut point | Sensitivity | Specificity | Correctly Classified | LR+ | LR - |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(> = 4) | 100.00% | 57.89% | 75.23% | 2.3750 | 0.0000 |
(> = 5) | 100.00% | 69.47% | 82.04% | 3.2759 | 0.0000 |
(> = 6) | 93.23% | 77.89% | 84.21% | 4.2177 | 0.0869 |
(> = 7) | 79.70% | 85.79% | 83.28% | 5.6085 | 0.2366 |
(> = 8) | 73.68% | 90.00% | 83.28% | 7.3684 | 0.2924 |
(> = 9) | 63.91% | 93.68% | 81.42% | 10.1190 | 0.3852 |
(> = 10) | 55.64% | 96.84% | 79.88% | 17.6190 | 0.4581 |
(> = 11) | 42.11% | 98.42% | 75.23% | 26.6668 | 0.5882 |
(> = 12) | 36.09% | 99.47% | 73.37% | 68.5717 | 0.6425 |
(> = 13) | 27.82% | 99.47% | 69.97% | 52.8573 | 0.7256 |
Cut point | Sensitivity | Specificity | Correctly Classified | LR+ | LR - |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
(> = 4) | 100.00% | 41.51% | 52.01% | 1.7097 | 0.0000 |
(> = 5) | 100.00% | 49.81% | 58.82% | 1.9925 | 0.0000 |
(> = 6) | 100.00% | 59.25% | 66.56% | 2.4537 | 0.0000 |
(> = 7) | 94.83% | 70.57% | 74.92% | 3.2217 | 0.0733 |
(> = 8) | 89.66% | 75.47% | 78.02% | 3.6552 | 0.1371 |
(> = 9) | 84.48% | 81.89% | 82.35% | 4.6642 | 0.1895 |
(> = 10) | 72.41% | 85.66% | 83.28% | 5.0499 | 0.3220 |
(> = 11) | 67.24% | 92.45% | 87.93% | 8.9095 | 0.3543 |
(> = 12) | 55.17% | 93.58% | 86.69% | 8.6004 | 0.4790 |
(> = 13) | 46.55% | 95.85% | 87.00% | 11.2147 | 0.5576 |