Factors Influencing Depression Experience Across Household Type

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Objectives: This study aimed to analyze sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, and health levels according to whether or not they experience depression, and to identify factors affecting depressive experences by household type. Methods: We conducted the analysis considering the complex sample design according to the guidelines for using the 2023 and 2024 Korean Community Health Survey. The final study subjects were 463,398 people. Complex sample frequency analysis and cross-tabulation were performed to identify sociodemographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, and health level factors of the study subjects and verify the differences. In addition, a complex sample logistic regression model was performed to identify fators affecting the experience of depression by household type. Results: Depressive experience was found to have statistically significant differences in all variables of demographic characteristics, health-related behaviors, and health levels. In addition, it was found that the depression experience was higher for women, older age, living in a general house, single-person households, basic livelihood recipients, low education, economic inactivity, hypertension and diabetes diagnosis, smoking, and low physical activity they had. Conclusions: It is believed that it is necessary to identify groups with high levels of depression experience and develop evidence-based mental health improvement policies and improve health policies. These results can be used as basic data for developing and improving mental health policies in the future.