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. 2024 Jun 26;38(12):1765–1773. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003963

Table 2.

PHQ-9 scores and psychiatric diagnosis.

Cameroon Republic of Congo Kenya Cote d’Ivoire Senegal Total
N % N % N % N % N % N %
PHQ-9 score
 Median score (range) 2 (0–21) 4 (0–19) 4 (0–19) 3 (0–22) 2 (0–14) 3 (0–22)
 0–4 235 78.3 70 53 54 55.1 87 58.8 82 79.6 528 67.8
 5-10 48 16 45 34.1 28 28.6 41 27.7 20 19.4 182 23.1
 10-14 10 3.3 12 9.1 13 13.3 13 8.8 1 1.0 49 6.3
 15-19 6 2 5 3.8 3 3.1 5 3.4 0 0.0 19 2.4
 20-27 1 0.3 0 0 0 0 2 1.4 0 0.0 3 0.4
PHQ-2 score
 Median score (range) 0 (0–6) 1 (0–6) 1.5 (0–6) 1 (0–6) 0 (0–5) 1 (0–6)
 0–2 263 87.7 99 75 70 71.4 104 70.3 93 90.3 629 80.5
 3–6 37 12.3 33 25 28 28.6 44 29.7 10 9.7 152 19.5
Psychiatric diagnosis
Major depressive disorder
 Yes 18 6.1 23 17.4 33 33.7 17 11.5 12 11.9 103 13.2
 No 278 93.9 109 82.6 65 66.3 131 88.5 89 88.1 672 86.3
 Not Specified 3 1 0 0 0 0 3
 Missing 1 1
Time frame
 Current (over past 2 weeks) 6 35.3 10 45.5 9 27.3 17 100 14 100 56 52.8
 Recent (within past year) 7 41.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 6.6
 Past (over one year ago) 4 23.5 12 54.5 24 72.7 40 37.7
 Missing 1 1 1 3 2.8