Research Article
Depressive Symptoms among People Living with HIV Attending ART Centers of Lumbini Province, Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of study participants at selected ART centers in Lumbini province, 2020.
| Variables (n = 406) | Category | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age of respondent | ≤40 | 200 | 49.3 | >40 | 206 | 50.7 |
| Sex | Male | 199 | 49 | Female | 207 | 51 |
| Ethnicity | Dalit | 58 | 14.3 | Janjati | 108 | 26.6 | Religious minorities | 122 | 30 | Upper caste | 118 | 29.1 |
| Educational status | Literate | 121 | 29.8 | Illiterate | 285 | 70.2 |
| Occupational status | Unemployed | 82 | 20.2 | Agriculture | 131 | 32.3 | Labor/wage worker | 70 | 17.2 | Self/employed | 123 | 30.3 |
| Family type | Nuclear | 247 | 60.8 | Joint | 159 | 39.2 |
| Tobacco products consumption | Yes | 111 | 27.3 | No | 295 | 72.7 |
| Alcohol consumption | Yes | 108 | 26.6 | No | 298 | 73.4 |
| Marital status | Married | 258 | 63.5 | Unmarried/widow/separated | 148 | 36.5 |
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