Table 2.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants according to anxiety status
| Characteristics | No Anxiety Present (n=193) |
Anxiety Present (n=302) |
Total (n=495) |
P-value |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
| Age, mean ± SD | 44.8(9.95) | 43.7 (8.42) | 44.1 (9.05) | 0.187 |
| Female, n (%) | 142(73.58) | 233 (77.15) | 375 (75.76) | |
| Educational level | 0.166 | |||
| None | 41(21.24) | 86 (28.48) | 127 (25.66) | |
| Primary | 72(37.31) | 99 (32.78) | 171 (34.55) | |
| Secondary | 70(36.27) | 94 (31.13) | 164 (33.13) | |
| tertiary | 10(5.18) | 23 (7.62) | 33 (6.67) | |
| Location of residence | 0.036 | |||
| Rural | 10 (5.18) | 12 (3.97) | 22 (4.44) | |
| Semi-urban | 55 (28.5) | 58 (19.21) | 113 (22.83) | |
| urban | 128 (66.32) | 232 (76.82) | 360 (72.73) | |
| Employment | < 0.001 | |||
| Self-employed | 139 (72.02) | 232 (76.82) | 371 (74.95) | |
| Unemployed | 29 (15.03) | 31 (10.26) | 60 (12.12) | |
| Private company employee | 9 (4.66) | 32 (10.6) | 41 (8.28) | |
| Government employee | 8 (4.15) | 0 (0) | 8 (1.62) | |
| Homemaker | 3 (1.55) | 5 (1.66) | 8 (1.62) | |
| Retired | 5 (2.59) | 2 (0.66) | 7 (1.41) | |
| Marital status | 0.446 | |||
| Single | 97 (50.26) | 157 (51.99) | 254 (51.31) | |
| Married | 24 (12.44) | 30 (9.93) | 54 (10.91) | |
| Widowed | 39 (20.21) | 57 (18.87) | 96 (19.39) | |
| separated | 14 (7.25) | 15 (4.97) | 29 (5.86) | |
| divorced | 19 (9.84) | 43 (14.24) | 62 (12.53) | |
| Monthly income | 0.446 | |||
| >1000 GHS | 30 (15.54) | 51 (16.89) | 81 (16.36) | |
| 500–1000 GHS | 60 (31.09) | 96 (31.79) | 156 (31.52) | |
| 100–500 GHS | 63 (32.64) | 102 (33.77) | 165 (33.33) | |
| < 100 GHS | 12 (6.22) | 25 (8.28) | 37 (7.47) | |
| Don't Know | 28 (14.51) | 28 (9.27) | 56 (11.31) | |
| Duration of HIV diagnosis | 0.255 | |||
| < 6months | 65 (33.68) | 117 (38.74) | 182 (36.77) | |
| >= 6 months | 128 (66.32) | 185 (61.26) | 313 (63.23) | |
| WHO clinical stage at diagnosis | 0.179 | |||
| 1 & 2 | 157 (81.35) | 224 (74.17) | 381 (76.97) | |
| 3 & 4 | 34 (17.62) | 73 (24.17) | 107 (21.62) | |
| No data | 2 (1.04) | 5 (1.66) | 7 (1.41) | |
| Alcohol use | 0.035 | |||
| Current | 15 (7.77) | 30 (9.93) | 45 (9.09) | |
| Former | 58 (30.05) | 120 (39.74) | 178 (35.96) | |
| never | 120 (62.18) | 152 (50.33) | 272 (54.95) | |
| Cigarette use | 0.871 | |||
| Current | 3 (1.55) | 4 (1.32) | 7 (1.41) | |
| Former | 10 (5.18) | 19 (6.29) | 29 (5.86) | |
| never | 180 (93.26) | 279 (92.38) | 459 (92.73) | |
| Suppressed viral load | 0.332 | |||
| Suppressed | 93 (48.19) | 125 (41.39) | 218 (44.04) | |
| Unsuppressed | 95 (49.22) | 168 (55.63) | 263 (53.13) | |
| Not done | 5 (2.59) | 9 (2.98) | 14 (2.83) | |
| Depression, n (%) | < 0.001 | |||
| Normal | 147 (76.17) | 73 (24.17) | 220 (44.44) | |
| Borderline | 24 (12.44) | 83 (27.48) | 107 (21.62) | |
| Abnormal | 22 (11.4) | 146 (48.34) | 168 (33.94) | |
| cART status n(%) | 0.225 | |||
| cART | 106 (54.92) | 149 (49.34) | 255 (51.52) | |
| Naïve | 87 (45.08) | 153 (50.66) | 240 (48.48) | |
| CD4 count, current, mean ± SD | 512 (350) | 467 (337) | 484 (343) | 0.160 |
| cART, combination anti-retroviral therapy |