Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of primary caregivers of children and adolescents with mental illness attending child and adolescent psychiatric clinics in SPHMMC and Y12HMC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2018 (n = 408)
Variables | Category | Frequency (%) |
|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 128 (31.4) |
Female | 280 (68.6) | |
Age in year | 18–35 | 115 (28.2) |
36–55 | 272 (66.7) | |
> 55 | 21 (5.1) | |
Income (in ETB) | <  1539 | 114 (27.9) |
>  1539 | 294 (72.1) | |
Religion | Orthodox | 261 (64.0) |
Muslim | 70 (17.2) | |
Protestant | 63 (15.4) | |
Others | 14 (3.4) | |
Ethnicity | Amhara | 198 (48.5) |
Oromo | 100 (24.5) | |
Tigrie | 40 (9.8) | |
Guragie | 64 (15.7) | |
Others | 6 (1.5) | |
Marital status | Married | 239 (58.6) |
Never married | 28 (6.9) | |
Divorced/separated | 103 (25.2) | |
Widow/er | 38 (9.3) | |
Occupational status | Governmental employee | 135 (33.1) |
NGO employee | 139 (34.1) | |
Merchant | 48 (11.8) | |
Farmer | 13 (3.2) | |
House wife | 62 (15.2) | |
Others | 11 (2.7) | |
Residence | Urban | 321 (78.7) |
Rural | 87 (21.3) | |
Educational status | No formal education | 67 (16.4) |
Primary | 117 (28.7) | |
Secondary | 90 (22.1) | |
College and above | 134 (32.8) | |
Relationship with the patient | Father | 155 (38.0) |
Mother | 238 (58.3) | |
Others | 15 (3.7) | |
Duration of care | <  1 year | 89 (21.8) |
1–5 years | 75 (18.4) | |
> 5 years | 244 (59.8) | |
Presence of other caregiver | Absent | 197 (48.3) |
Present | 211 (51.7) | |
Perceived social support | Poor | 233 (57.1) |
Moderate | 127 (31.1) | |
Strong | 48 (11.8) | |
Khat chewing | Yes | 80 (19.6) |
No | 328 (80.4) | |
Alcohol drinking | Yes | 207 (50.7) |
No | 201 (49.3) | |
Cigarette smoking | Yes | 21 (5.1) |
No | 387 (94.9) | |
Chronic medical illness | Yes | 78 (19.1) |
No | 330 (80.9) | |
Family history of mental illness | Yes | 57 (14.0) |
No | 351 (86.0) |