Table 3.
Multivariable Analysis of Factors Associated with Depression Among University Students from the Bench-Sheko Zone, South-west Ethiopia, 2020 (N=314)
| Variables | Category | Depression | COR (95%CI) |
AOR (95%CI) | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes N (%) | No N (%) | |||||
| Sex | Male | 28 (41.8) | 171 (69.2) | 1 | 1 | 0.016* |
| Female | 39 (58.2) | 76 (30.8) | 3.13 (1.79–5.46) | 2.11 (1.15–3.88) | ||
| Religion | Protestant | 27 (40.3) | 106 (42.9) | 1 | 1 | 0.372 0.274 |
| Orthodox | 21 (31.3) | 95 (38.5) | 0.86 (0.46–1.63) | 0.72 (0.35–1.47) | ||
| Muslim | 19 (28.4) | 46 (18.6) | 1.62 (0.82–3.20) | 1.56 (0.70–3.46) | ||
| Ethnicity | Bench | 27 (40.3) | 110 (44.5) | 1 | 1 | |
| Amhara | 26 (38.8) | 65 (26.3) | 1.63 (0.87–3.02) | 1.44 (0.70–2.99) | 0.315 0.542 0.739 |
|
| Oromo | 12 (17.9) | 59 (23.9) | 0.82 (0.39–1.75) | 0.76 (0.32–1.79) | ||
| Others | 2 (3.0) | 13 (5.3) | 0.62 (0.13–2.94) | 0.73 (0.12–4.40) | ||
| Living with parents | Yes | 32 (47.8) | 150 (60.7) | 1 | 1 | 0.065 |
| No | 35 (52.2) | 97 (39.1) | 1.69 (0.98–2.91) | 1.77 (0.96–3.25) | ||
| Stay at home | Yes | 44 (65.7) | 73 (29.6) | 4.56 (2.56–8.09) | 3.6 (1.95–6.66) | <0.001* |
| No | 23 (34.3) | 174 (70.4) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Relatives got COVID | Yes | 15 (22.4) | 31 (12.6) | 2.01 (1.01–3.99) | 1.53 (0.68–3.45) | 0.302 |
| No | 52 (77.6) | 216 (87.4) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Medical illness | Yes | 15 (22.4) | 16 (6.5) | 4.16 (1.93–8.95) | 3.10 (1.28–7.42) | 0.012* |
| No | 52 (77.6) | 231 (93.5) | 1 | 1 | ||
| Social support | Poor | 25 (37.3) | 54 (21.9) | 3.88 (1.73–8.73) | 2.84 (1.16–6.90) | 0.022* 0.021* |
| Moderate | 32 (47.8) | 109 (44.1) | 2.46 (1.14–5.29) | 2.61 (1.15–5.92) | ||
| Strong | 10 (14.9) | 84 (34.0) | 1 | 1 | ||
Note: *P value <0.05, 1=reference category.