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Table 1 Characteristics of adolescent girls and young women by Common Mental Disorder status

From: Common mental disorders and HIV status in the context of DREAMS among adolescent girls and young women in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

 

n

% of all

% with probable CMD

Age group

 13–14

459

21.1

11.8

 15–17

685

31.5

19.0

 18–19

473

21.8

25.8

 20–22

555

25.6

31.9

Occupation

 Neither in school nor employed

509

23.5

28.7

 In school

1633

75.3

20.1

 Employed

28

1.3

25.0

Socio-economic status

 Lowest third

723

35.1

21.3

 Middle third

741

35.9

21.6

 Highest third

598

29.0

23.1

Urbanicity

 Rural

1382

64.2

20.0

 Peri-urban/urban

771

35.8

26.2

Food insecurities

 No

1494

68.8

18.7

 Yes

678

31.2

29.9

Has cellphone

 No

795

36.6

15.6

 Yes

1376

63.4

26.1

Migrated ever since age 13

 Never

1771

81.5

20.6

 Within PIPSA

201

9.3

26.9

 External migration

200

9.2

32.5

Ever been or currently pregnant

 No

1570

74.0

18.3

 Yes

553

26.0

31.8

Knows own HIV status

 No

1192

55.1

18.2

 Yes

970

44.9

27.3

HIV status

 Seronegative

1789

82.7

21.1

 Seropositive

233

10.7

33.5

 Unknown

150

6.9

18.7

Ever experienced gender-based violence

 No

1404

64.6

18.4

 Yes

768

35.4

29.3

Ever drunk alcohol

 Never

1645

75.9

19.3

 Ever but not last month

310

14.3

28.1

 Drank last month

211

9.7

37.0

Community-level DREAMS interventions used

 None

643

29.6

25.0

 One

652

30.0

22.9

 Two

378

17.4

21.4

 Three or more

499

23.0

18.4

Individual-level DREAMS interventions used

 None

756

34.8

15.5

 One

767

35.3

22.8

 Two

401

18.5

26.4

 Three or more

248

11.4

34.3

  1. CMD Common mental disorders. Total sample is 2172. P-values for χ2 tests of equality of proportion with CMD across all categories of a variable