Table 3.

Association of Socio-economic factors with Major depressive disorder (MDD) by gender in a community sample from Uganda (N= 4660)

Characteristics	Prevalence of MDD	Males Univariate OR(95% CI)	Wald test P- value	Prevalence of MDD	Females Univariate OR(95% CI)	Wald test P- value
Status in household
Head	509 (26.7)	1.0		428 (38.5)	1.0
Offspring	27 (13.2)	0.5 (0.3-0.7)	< 0.001*	38 (23.0)	0.5 (0.30.7)	< 0.001*
Others	43 (15.3)	0.5 (0.4-0.8)		321 (32.3)	0.8 (0.6-0.9)
Age Group
15-18 yrs	32 (16.2)	1.0		94 (21.5)	1.0
19-24 yrs	53 (16.5)	1.0 (0.6-1.9)		107 (26.4)	1.3 (0.9-1.9)
25-35 yrs	155 (20.4)	1.3 (0.8-2.1)	<0.001*	235 (33.7)	1.8 (1.3-2.6)	<0.001*
36-50yrs	167 (28.0)	2.0 (1.2-3.2)		185 (43.0)	2.9 (2.0-4.0)
51-60yrs	88 (42.3)	3.7 (2.2-6.4)		80 (51.9)	4.0 (2.5-6.2)
61+ yrs	83 (45.6)	4.0 (2.1-7.3)		83 (68.6)	8.0 (4.9-12.8)
Educational Status
Attained formal education	113 (33.4)	1.0		328 (49.2)	1.0
No formal education	451 (24.1)	1.6 (1.2-2.1)	0.001*	395 (30.2)	2.2 (1.8-2.7)	<0.001*
Marital Status
Married	411 (25.2)	1.0		481 (31.4)	1.0
Separated/widowed	83 (42.6)	2.2 (1.6-3.1)		231 (57.3)	3.0 (2.4-3.9)
Single parent	10 (31.3)	1.3 (0.5-2.9)	<0.001*	23 (43.4)	1.7 (0.9-3.0)	<0.001*
Never married	71 (13.9)	0.9 (0.2-3.6)		2 (11.1)	0.3 (0.1-1.3)
Others	4 (18.2)	0.5 (0.4-0.7)		50 (19.0)	0.5 (0.4-0.7)
Employment Status
Not employed	482 (24.3)	1.0		542 (31.2)	1.0
Employed/Student	93 (34.6)	0.6 (0.4-0.8)	0.001*	236 (47.0)	0.5 (0.4-0.6)	<0.001*
Socio-economic Status
Class I	14 (10.4)	0.2 (0.1-0.5)		10 (9.8)	0.1(0.1-0.3)
Class II	22 (18.3)	0.5 (0.3-0.8)		21 (20.8)	0.4 (0.2-0.7)
Class III	45 (24.6)	0.7 (0.5-1.1)	<0.001*	49 (35.5)	0.7 (0.5-1.1)	<0.001*
Class IV	154 (21.3)	0.6 (0.4-0.7)		198 (30.0)	0.6 (0.5-0.8)
Class V	342 (31.1)	1.0		504 (40.4)	1.0

^*Statistically significant association