Magnitude of Depression on HIV Patients and Associated Factors in Robe District Health facility, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

Introduction: Depression is becoming major health problem among HIV
patients. HIV
two leading cause of disability by the year 2030.
Objectives: To assess the magnitude of depression and associated factors on
ART patients at Robe health center and Robe didea general hospital.
Methods: Health
facility based cross-sectional study was conducted.
Systematic random sampling technique was used. The number of sample size
for this study was 421.The collected data was entered in to EPI INFO
Version -7 and then, exported, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version 22.
Data analysis technique such as descriptive and summary was used to
present the finding. Association between dependent & independent variables
was computed by using logistic regression model at 0.05 level of
significance and odds ratio to measure the strength of association with 95 %
CI.

Result: The magnitude of the depression in our study is 24.2 %. Female
were more likely [AOR(95% CI):3.65(1.82,7.43)] to develop depression
compared to male, those with clinical stage III patients were more likely to
develop depression [AOR(95% CI): 8.87, (1.689, 46.95)] than clinical stage
I, those who live alone were more likely to develop depression [AOR(95%
CI): 2.3 (1.09, 5.51)], than those who live with family and those with CD4
count < 200 were more likely to develop depression [AOR(95% CI): 4.5
(2.15, 9.64)] than with CD4 count >400.
Conclusions: Depression is high among people living on ART. Socio
demographic factors like sex, living alone and HIV related factors like CD4
count, HIV clinical stage were show significant association with depression
among HIV positive patients. Improving chronic HIV care like early CD4
count and early treatment is recommended.