Depression and Its Help Seeking Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Community Survey in Ethiopia

Table 1

Characteristics of included studies.

Author Year	Setting	Design	Outcome	Sample size	Number of cases	Tool
Mulatu, 1999	Amhara	CS	Intention	50	10	Case vignette
Derbew, 2005	Oromia	CS	Intention	728	527	Case vignette
Benti, 2016	Oromia	CS	Intention	816	454	Case vignette
Hailemariam, 2012	NHS	CS	Depression	4925	449	ICD-10
			Actual	449	103	Case vignette
Rathod, 2016	SNNP	CS	Depression	1489	375	PHQ-9
			Actual	375	47	Case vignette
Menberu, 2018	Amhara	CS	Depression	1665	226	PHQ-9
			Actual	226	58	GHSQ
Sumet, 2017	Amhara	CS	Intention	832	592	GHSQ
Fekadu, 2007	SNNP		Actual	1511	1242	Case vignette
Fekadu, 2008	SNNP	CS	depression	1673	341	DSM-IV
			Actual	343	121	Case vignette
Molla, 2016	Amhara		Depression	779	139	PHQ-9
Hussien, 2017	Oromia		Depression	4371	323	SELF
Mossie, 2016	Oromia		Depression	590	171	BDI-21
Bartlett, 2016	Amhara		Depression	268	7	ICD-10
Kebede, 1999	AA		Depression	1420	51	HSCL-15
C. Handeley, 2008	SNNP		Depression	541	324	DSM-IV
Taye, 2017	Oromia		Depression	359	125	SCAN
Kebede, 2003	Oromia		Depression	2285	212	DSM-IV
Hailemariam, 2006	Oromia		Depression	205	5	ICD-10

Note.GHSQ: general help-seeking questionnaire, HSCL: Hopkins Symptoms Checklist, SNNP: Southern Nation and Nationalities of People, PHQ-9: Patient Health Questionnaire-9, CES-D: Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, BDI-21: Beck Depression Inventory, ICD-10: International Composite Diagnostic, SCAN: Schedule for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry, and DSM-IV: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.