Table 3:
The prevalence of anxiety and depressive symptoms using random effect model by subgroup analyses.
| Subgroup | Category | No. of studies | Events/N | Pooled prevalence (95% CI) |
Heterogeneity | χ2 (P-value) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I2 | T | ||||||
| Methodological Quality (Score ≥ 7/9) | |||||||
| Depression | Moderate and High Risk Low Risk |
09 08 |
1350/7871 1252/5847 |
17.5% (14.3–20.7%) 23.2% (17.5–28.9%) |
92.72 96.67 |
0.022 0.066 |
26.64<0.0001 |
| Anxiety | Moderate and High Risk Low Risk |
13 08 |
2029/11867 1338/5847 |
23.0% (14.9–31.1%) 24.2% (14.8–33.7%) |
99.53 98.95 |
0.022 0.018 |
56.75<0.0001 |