Table 4.
Prevalence of depression measured with Beck's self-assessment scale among women aged over 16 years living in Tuzla Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina who experienced no domestic violence and victims of domestic violence*
| No (%) of women who |
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| experienced no domestic violence |
experienced domestic violence |
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| Level of depression | domicile (n = 53) ‡ | refugees (n = 5) | outpatient (n = 10) | total (n = 68) | domicile (n = 76)‡ | refugees (n = 45) | outpatient (n = 94) | total (n = 215) | P† |
| Absence | 40 (75.5) | 4 (80.0) | 2 (20.0) | 46 (67.6) | 19 (25.0) | 20 (44.4) | 3 (3.2) | 42 (19.5) | <0.001 |
| Mild | 9 (16.9) | 1 (20.0) | 0 | 10 (14.7) | 17 (22.4) | 4 (8.9) | 4 (4.3) | 25 (11.6) | 0.501 |
| Mild-moderate | 1 (1.9) | 0 | 1 (10.0) | 2 (2.9) | 9 (11.8) | 4 (8.9) | 3 (3.2) | 16 (7.4) | 0.184 |
| Moderate-serious | 2 (3.8) | 0 | 2 (2.9) | 16 (21.1) | 9 (20.0) | 13 (13.8) | 38 (17.8) | 0.002 | |
| Serious | 1 (1.9) | 0 | 7 (70.0) | 8 (11.8) | 15 (19.7) | 8 (17.8) | 71 (75.5) | 94 (43.7) | <0.001 |
*Score of Beck depression inventory (27). Participants were divided into 3 subgroups domicile women (n = 129), refugee women (n = 50), and psychiatric patients (n = 104).
†χ2 test for women experienced no domestic violence vs women victims of domestic violence.
‡P<0.001 for domicile women victims of domestic violence vs domicile women experienced no domestic violence (Mann-Whitney U test).