Maternal depression symptoms are highly prevalent among food-insecure households in Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to evaluate the association between household food insecurity and maternal depression in Ethiopia. Design/Setting/Subjects In 2014, we conducted a cross-sectional study in southern Ethiopia, including 591 food-secure and 2500 food-insecure households. We measured depression status of women using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 validated for Ethiopia, with a cut-off of ≥5. We evaluated household-level food insecurity using a validated Household Food Insecurity Access Scale. We applied Bayesian modelling to evaluate the relationship between food insecurity and maternal depression accounting for other observed characteristics.

Results

Among the analytic sample, 80·8 (95 % CI 79·4, 82·2) % of women were living in food-insecure households. The overall preval

SUBMITTER: Gebreyesus SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10260902 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature