Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
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Research Article

Socio Demographic Correlates of Depressed Patients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

¹Department Of Neuropsychiatry, University Of Port Harcourt, Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

²Department Of Psychiatry, University Of Calabar, Cross Rivers State, Nigeria

*Corresponding Author:

Chidozie Donald Chukwujekwu
Department of Mental Health, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Tel: 08035928593
E-mail: chidozie.chukwujekwu@uniport.edu.ng

Received date: February 13, 2017; Accepted date: March 21, 2017; Published date: March 28, 2017

Citation: Okeafor CU, Chukwujekwu CD, Olose EO (2017) Socio Demographic Correlates of Depressed Patients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria. J Addict Res Ther 8:313. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000313

Copyright: © 2017 Okeafor CU, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Objective: To identify the socio-demographic factors that correlate with depression in patients attending a tertiary hospital in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Methods: 470 subjects, recruited by a systematic sampling method participated in the study. The Beck’s Depression Inventory (BDI) was administered to each person. Only one hundred and eighty five subjects met the criteria for the second stage of the study, (a score of 18 and above on the BDI). Diagnosis was made with the Composite International Diagnostic Interview schedule and data analysis done with the statistical package in the social sciences (SPSS). Results: The prevalence of depression was significantly lower among the married in comparison to the presently unmarried which includes the widowed, the divorced/separated and the single (X2=4.070, df=1, p

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