The effect of expanded access to mental health care on economic status of households with a person with a mental disorder in rural Ethiopia: a controlled before-after study

Table 1 Characteristics of household participants who did and did not complete follow-up assessment

Variables	Severe mental disorders sub- study			Depression sub-study
Variables	Follow-up (n = 565)	No follow-up (n = 14)	P	Follow-up (n = 238)	No follow-up (n = 20)	P
Demographic variables
Age, mean (SD)	49.7 (14.1)	49.9 (16.6)	0.960	45.0 (13.5)	45.4 (16.9)	0.902
Household size, mean (SD)	5.2 (2.1)	5(2.9)	0.673	5.1 (2.0)	3.9 (2.1)	0.011
Residence^‡ (rural), n(%)	462 (81.8)	10 (71.4)	0.315	192 (80.7)	15(75.0)	0.541
Gender (female), n(%)	137 (24.4)	5(35.7)	0.333	48 (20.4)	7(35.0)	0.128
Education^† (Formal education), n(%)	356 (63.4)	7(50.0)	0.307	137(58.6)	11(55.0)	0.758
Economic variables
Household income, median (IQR)^†	3166.6 (1730.7, 5555.5)	3125.0 (2080.0, 4000.0)	0.991	3583.3 (2352.9, 6896.5)	5720.2 (3640.3, 10874.3)	0.020
Household consumption, median (IQR)^†	8412.6 (5350.1, 12938.3)	8935.2 (4520.0, 11672.7)	0.987	9436.6 (5795.8, 14270.2)	9461.1 (7202.6, 17797.8)	0.653
Clinical variables
WHODAS complex score, median (IQR)^§	25 (5.5, 55.5)	27.7 (2.7, 52.7)	0.864	31.94 (16.6, 48.6)	33.3 (19.4, 45.8)	0.649
BPRS-E score, mean (SD)^§	47.3(16.7)	42.0 (15.0)	0.436	-	-	-
PHQ-9, mean (SD)^§	12.7(5.4)	17.5(4.8)	0.034	11.0(4.5)	9.8(4.1)	0.491

^†=Birr; US$1 = Birr 20.69 (2015);^§Index person; P value for Wilcoxon rank sum test ( for comparison of medians, t-test for means and Pearson’s χ2 for categorical variables. Residence^‡ categorized by rural or urban location; Education ^†categorized as( no formal education, primary education and more than primary), WHODAS (World Health Organization Disability Assessment Scale); IQR (Inter-Quartile Range); SD (Standard Deviation); BPRS-E (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Expanded version), PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire item-9)

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