Research Article
Insight and Associated Factors among Patients with Schizophrenia in Mental Specialized Hospital, Ethiopia, 2018
Table 1
Description of socio-demographic characteristics of patients with schizophrenia.
| Variables | Category | Frequency | Percentage |
| Sex | Female | 170 | 38.2 | Male | 275 | 61.8 |
| Religion | Orthodox | 211 | 47.4 | Muslim | 179 | 40.2 | Others | 55 | 12.4 |
| Marital status | Single | 222 | 49.9 | Married | 144 | 32.4 | Separated | 45 | 10.1 | Others | 34 | 7.6 |
| Ethnicity | Amhara | 170 | 38.2 | Oromo | 131 | 29.4 | Gurage | 91 | 20.4 | Others | 53 | 11.9 |
| Educational status | Unable to read and write | 142 | 31.9 | Able to read and write | 204 | 45.8 | Primary school | 43 | 9.7 | High school | 24 | 5.4 | College graduate and above | 32 | 7.2 |
| Occupation | Government employed | 88 | 19.8 | Merchant | 47 | 10.6 | Farmer | 47 | 10.6 | Student | 49 | 11 | Day laborer | 29 | 6.5 | House wife | 21 | 4.7 | Unemployed | 164 | 36.9 |
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Others ; catholic, protestant others ; widowed, divorced others ; Tigre, Silte, Woleyta. |