Pattern Of Depression And Family Support In A Nigerian Family Practice Population

Results: The age of study subjects ranged from 16 to 84 years with the mean age of 49.66 + 14.95 years. One hundred and forty nine of the 250 subjects (59.6%) were found to have various degrees of depression. One hundred and seven subjects (42.8%) had mild depression, forty subjects (16.0%) had moderate depression and only two (0.8%) had severe depression. The proportion of depressed subjects who lived below poverty level was significantly greater than that of non-depressed subjects (p=0.002). Subjects with poor family support were almost two times more likely to have depression than subjects with good family support {p = 0.018, O.R =1.87 (95% CI = 1.07-2.37)}.