Table 3.
Factors associated with Mental distress of caregiver’s of people with severe mental illness in Amanuel Mental Specialized Hospital, 2013 (n = 390)
| Socio demographic Variables | Mental distress of care givers | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| yes | no | crude OR (95 % CI) | adjusted OR (95 % CI | |
| Gender/sex | ||||
| Male | 70 | 106 | 1 | 1 |
| Female | 151 | 63 | 3.629(2.382,5.531)* | 3.170(1.843,5.454)* |
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 105 | 103 | 1 | 1 |
| Single/never married | 41 | 32 | 1.257(0.735,2.149) | 1.768(0.809,3.861) |
| Divorce/separated | 40 | 18 | 2.180(1.174,4.049)* | 0.992(0.446,2.208) |
| Widowed | 35 | 16 | 2.146(1.119,4.114)* | 0.662(0.286,1.533) |
| Educational status | ||||
| Not educated | 95 | 47 | 2.074(1.176,3.658)* | 1.083(0.464,2.529) |
| ≤grade 12 | 88 | 83 | 1.088(0.635,1.864) | 1.009(0.484,2.103) |
| >grade 12 | 38 | 39 | 1 | 1 |
| Cont Occupation | ||||
| Employed | 73 | 64 | 1 | 1 |
| Own business | 23 | 33 | 0.611(0.326,1.147) | 0.613(0.289,1.300) |
| Farmer | 52 | 31 | 1.471(0.842,2.567) | 2.245(1.129,4.463)* |
| House wife | 33 | 17 | 1.702(0.867,3.341) | 1.006(0.436,2.231) |
| jobless | 40 | 24 | 1.461(0.796,2.682) | 1.695(0.796,3.608) |
| Relation with the patient | 24 | 20 | 2.031(0.820,5.029) | 1.461(0.476,4.478) |
| Spouse | 114 | 59 | 3.270(1.538,6.952)* | 1.925(0.762,4.868) |
| Parent | 70 | 68 | 1.742(0.813,3.735) | 1.515(0.603,3.806) |
| Immediate family relative | 13 | 22 | 1 | 1 |
| Non-immediate family relative | ||||
| Diagnosis of the patient | 188 | 123 | 2.131(1.29,3.518)* | 2.007 (1.109, 3.634)* |
| Psychosis | 33 | 46 | 1 | |
| Bipolar disorder | 1 | |||
| Number of admission | ||||
| No admission | 99 | 110 | 1 | 1 |
| One time admission | 58 | 37 | 1.742(1.063, 2.854)* | 2.425(1.319, 4.459)* |
| ≥ Two times admission | 64 | 22 | 3.248(1.636, 6.448)* | 3.293(1.474, 7.356)* |
| Duration of care giving in year | ||||
| 0–5 years | 129 | 114 | 1 | 1 |
| 6–10 years | 50 | 33 | 1.339(0.807, 2.222) | 0.942(0.499, 1.779) |
| ≥11 years | 42 | 22 | 1.687(0.950, 2.995) | 1.271(0.600, 2.693) |
| Social support of caregiver | ||||
| Have no social support | 15 | 78 | 11.711(6.427,21.560)* | 9.523(5.002,18.132)* |
| Have social support | 206 | 91 | 1 | 1 |
| Use of Chat in your life | 22 | 28 | 0.557(0.306,1.013) | 1.109(0.506,2.432) |
| Yes | 199 | 141 | 1 | 1 |
| No | ||||
* refers association p value <0.05