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 | |||||||