Research Article
Sociodemographic and Clinical Variables of Depression among Patients with Epilepsy in a Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Nigeria
Table 1
Comparison of the sociodemographic characteristics of the depressed and nondepressed study groups (
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| Variable | Depression group (%) () | No depression group () | | D. F | value |
| Age in years | | | | | | Mean (S.D) | 30.37 (8.35) | 28.60 (9.34) | | 398 | 0.60 | Gender | | | | | | Male | 19 (7.1) | 247 | | | | Female | 16 (11.9) | 118 | | 1 | 0.08 | Occupation by | | | | | | Social class | 13 (8.2) | 146 | | | | Unemployed/social class (others) | 22 (9.1) | 219 | | 1 | 0.86 | Marital status | | | | | | Married | 15 (8.6) | 159 | | | | Others | 20 (8.8) | 206 | | 1 | 0.94 | Educational status | | | | | | Western | 10 (6.6) | 141 | | | | Education/NIL | 25 (10.0) | 224 | | 1 | 0.24 | Ethnicity | | | | | | Hausa | 26 (7.4) | 327 | | 1 | 0.01 | Others | 9 (10.0) | 38 | | | | Religion | | | | | | Islam | 34 (8.6) | 360 | | | | Christianity | 1 (16.7) | 5 | | 1 | 0.43 |
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