Prevalence and Risk Factors for Antenatal Depression in Ethiopia: Systematic Review

Table 3

Demographic risk factors of antenatal depression.

Demographic Factors	Risks of demographic factors on antenatal depression	Author
Marital Status	Unmarried women have 4 times higher risk than married women	Tilahun et al., 2017
	Single women are 3x at higher odds than counter parts	Assefa GW, 2015
Age	Women aged between 20 and 29 were 72% times less likely to develop antenatal depression than those aged between 14 and 19	Tadesse et al., 2016
Occupation	Housewives are 2.5x more likely to have antenatal depression than government employees	Tadesse et al., 2016
	Merchant and daily laborers are 3.4x at higher odds than government employees	Tadesse et al., 2016
	Housewives are 4.2x at higher odds than private workers	Tilahun et al., 2017
Income	Those with monthly income of above 1000 Eth. Birr are 78% less likely to develop antenatal depression compared to those with income below 500 Eth. Birr	Assefa GW, 2015
	Income less than 1500 Eth. Birr is 5.12x at higher odds to develop antenatal depression than income >1500 Eth. Birr.	Tilahun et al., 2017
	Economic problems are 9.52x at higher odds to develop antenatal depression	Martha et al., 2017
	Having debt was 2.79x at higher odds to develop antenatal depression	Telake et al., 2017