Prevalence and determinants of depression in mothers of children under 5 years in Bole District, Ghana

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Table 3 Multivariate analysis of the determinants of depression in mothers (n = 244)

Characteristic	Adjusted OR	95% confidence interval	p value
Marital status^a
Currently married	1.00
Currently unmarried	5.24	2.06–13.28	< 0.001
Occupation
Trader/vendor	1.00
Housewife	0.38	0.14–1.06	0.063
Others^b	0.18	0.06–0.51	0.001
Ethnicity
Gonja	1.00
Others	2.32	1.02–5.28	0.046
Source of lighting in the household
Electricity	1.00
Others	8.72	2.00–38.08	0.004
Type of fuel used for cooking
Firewood	1.00
Others	0.23	0.08–0.68	0.008

^aLegally married women were classified as “currently married”, all other women were classified as “currently unmarried”
^bThis includes mainly agriculture workers (n = 45) and services providers (n = 34) and a few salaried workers (n = 7)

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