Ease of marital communication and depressive symptom severity among men and women in rural Uganda: cross-sectional, whole-population study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Depression is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. The extent to which marital communication may influence depression in contexts with little mental health support is unknown.

Methods

We conducted a whole-population study of married adult residents of eight villages in a rural region of southwestern Uganda. Depression symptom severity was measured using a modified version of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist for Depression, with > 1.75 classified as a positive screen for probable depression. Respondents were asked to report about ease of marital communication ('never easy', 'easy once in a while', 'easy most of the time' or 'always easy'). Sex-stratified, multivariable Poisson regression models were fit to estimate the association between depression sympt

SUBMITTER: Jurinsky J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8792190 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature