Table 1.
Sociodemographic and other characteristics of participants (N=2867)
| Characteristics | n (%) |
| Anxiety and depressive symptoms | |
| No | 2081 (72.6) |
| Yes | 786 (27.4) |
| Presence of multimorbidity | |
| No | 1427 (49.8) |
| Yes | 1440 (50.2) |
| Age (years) | |
| 30–39 | 1062 (37.0) |
| 40–49 | 816 (28.5) |
| 50–59 | 570 (19.9) |
| 60–69 | 293 (10.2) |
| ≥70 | 126 (4.4) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 1477 (51.5) |
| Female | 1390 (48.5) |
| Education | |
| No education | 404 (14.1) |
| Primary | 133 (4.6) |
| Secondary | 647 (22.6) |
| Higher/graduate | 1098 (38.3) |
| Postgraduate | 585 (20.4) |
| Income (rupees) | |
| <16 000 | 638 (22.3) |
| 16 001–24 999 | 426 (14.9) |
| 25 000–39 999 | 636 (22.2) |
| 40 000–54 999 | 644 (22.5) |
| >55 000 | 523 (18.2) |
| Occupation | |
| Unemployed | 484 (16.9) |
| Unskilled worker | 243 (8.5) |
| Skilled worker | 250 (8.7) |
| Labour work | 389 (13.6) |
| Non-manual work | 296 (10.3) |
| Professional office job | 1205 (42) |
| Marital status | |
| Never married | 272 (9.5) |
| Currently married | 2437 (85.0) |
| Widowed/separated/divorced | 158 (5.5) |
| Number of children | |
| No child | 1250 (43.6) |
| 1–2 | 974 (34.0) |
| 3 and above | 643 (22.4) |
| Ethnicity | |
| Sindhi | 402 (14.0) |
| Punjabi | 318 (11.1) |
| Balochi | 94 (3.3) |
| Pashtu | 176 (6.1) |
| Urdu | 1534 (53.5) |
| Others | 343 (12.0) |
| Home status | |
| Own | 1595 (55.6) |
| Rent | 1155 (40.3) |
| Other arrangement | 117 (4.1) |
| Smoking status | |
| No | 2323 (81.0) |
| Yes | 544 (19.0) |
| Visiting faith healer | |
| No | 2471 (86.2) |
| Yes | 396 (13.8) |