Prevalence and inflnencing factors of depression among rural women in Fengcheng

ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence of depression among rural women and to analyze the association beNveen the prevalence of depression and related factors.MethodsWith cluster sampling, 800 women of 18-65 years old were selected The Zung Self-ating Depression Scale (SDS)was applied to assess the extent and severity of depressive symptoms, and an SDS score of 50 was set as the cut-off score Student's t-test, chi-square test and logistic regression were utilized in the study The analysis were performed with SPSS 13.0 software.ResultsThe prevalence rate of depression was 54.3% among the coral women The negative living event scores significantly differed between case group(4.79±13.3055) and control group (2.34±8.4930).The results of logistic regression showed that significant related factors of depression symptom were with high education (OR=0.768, 95% CI=0.638-0.926),having new family members (OR=0.147, 95% CI=0.028-0.769),having heart disease (OR=2.939, 95% CI=1.603-5.390),having conflict with mother in-law (OR=14.938, 95% CI=1.554-143.55),and having adebt (OR=1.861, 95% CI=1.091-3.173).ConclusionThe prevalence of depression among rural women is influenced by physical and social factors.