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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2009 Nov 16;46(1):35–44. doi: 10.1007/s00127-009-0164-8

Table 1.

Prevalence of Major Depressive disorder (MDD) in 14 districts of Uganda and it's association by gender

Prevalence of MDD Male Female
Total N=4660 (%) Univariate OR (95% CI)* Univariate OR (95%
CI)*
Adjumani 68 (15.6) 1.0 1.0
Mebende 72 (24.8) 2.0 (0.9-4.7) 1.9 (1.1-3.4)
Bugiri 158 (44.4) 4.5 (2.1-9.8) 4.9 (3.3-7.1)
Kapchorwa 22 (8.4) 0.4 (0.2-1.0) 0.8 (0.4-1.6)
Katakwi 133 (40.3) 2.3 (0.9-5.5) 5.8 (3.9-8.6)
Soroti 104 (44.4) 4.3 (1.8-10.3) 5.4 (3.0-9.8)
Kaberamaido 179 (48.0) 4.2 (1.9-9.3) 7.3 (4.9-10.8)
Apac 43 (10.5) 0.7 (0.2-1.8) 0.7 (0.3-1.4)
Arua 130 (31.6) 2.7 (1.3-5.7) 2.7 (1.7-4.2)
Lira 40 (12.6) 1.0 (0.4-2.3) 0.7 (0.4-1.3)
Moyo 191 (49.6) 5.3 (2.4-11.5) 6.1 (3.9-9.4)
Nebbi 116 (34.0) 2.9 (1.3-6.1) 3.2 (2.2-4.6)
Yumbe 88 (38.9) 2.8 (1.2-6.7) 4.9 (3.0-7.8)
Bushenyi 22 (7.7) 0.3 (0.1-0.9) 0.6 (0.3-1.1)
All districts 1366 (29.3)
*

Wald test P-value significant at <0.001