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ArticleGlobal mental health (Cambridge, England)2018

Burden of depressive symptoms and non-alcohol substance abuse; and their association with alcohol use and partner violence: a cross-sectional study in four sub-Saharan Africa countries.

F Bajunirwe, S Maling, H-O Adami, I O Ajayi, J Volmink, C Adebamowo, C Laurence, T Reid, J Nankya-Mutyoba, F S Chiwanga and 4 more

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F BajunirweDepartment of Community Health, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 1410, Mbarara, Uganda.ORCID 0000-0002-1326-5230
S MalingDepartment of Psychiatry, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 1410, Mbarara, Uganda.
H-O AdamiDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
I O AjayiDepartment of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
J VolminkThe South African Cochrane Centre, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa.
C AdebamowoGreenebaum Cancer Center and Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
C LaurenceCentre for Evidence-Based Health Care, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
T ReidDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
J Nankya-MutyobaDepartment of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Makerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
F S ChiwangaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
S DalalDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
M NjelekelaDepartment of Physiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
D GuwatuddeDepartment of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Makerere School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
M D HolmesDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In sub-Saharan Africa, there are limited data on burden of non-alcohol substance abuse (NAS) and depressive symptoms (DS), yet potential risk factors such as alcohol and intimate partner violence (IPV) are common and NAS abuse may be the rise. The aim of this study was to measure the burden of DS and NAS abuse, and determine whether alcohol use and IPV are associated with DS and/or NAS abuse. We conducted a cross-sectional study at five sites in four countries: Nigeria (nurses), South Africa (teachers), Tanzania (teachers) and two sites in Uganda (rural and peri-urban residents). Participants were selected by simple random sampling from a sampling frame at each of the study sites. We used a standardized tool to collect data on demographics, alcohol use and NAS use, IPV and DS and calculated prevalence ratios (PR). We enrolled 1415 respondents and of these 34.6% were male. DS occurred among 383 (32.3%) and NAS use among 52 (4.3%). In the multivariable analysis, being female (PR  =  1.49,

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