TY - JOUR
T1 - Exposure to stress-full life events and help-seeking behaviors among reproductive-age women in Northwest Ethiopia:
T2 - Community-based cross-sectional study
AU - Tinsae, Techilo
AU - Shumet, Shegaye
AU - Azale, Telake
AU - Salelaw, Endalamew
AU - Demilew, Demeke
AU - Lema, Alemu
AU - Nakie, Girum
AU - Andualem, Fantahun
AU - Srahbzu, Mengesha
AU - Amare, Tadele
AU - Getinet, Wondale
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - Background: Stressful life events are a significant public health issue worldwide. Despite its mental, psychological, and social problems, important questions about the prevalence and risk factors remained unanswered. Therefore, this study aimed to show major life events and help-seeking behaviors among women in the reproductive-age group. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted using a multistage cluster sampling technique to get a total of 845 study participants from March 20 to April 29, 2021. Exposure to stressful life events and help-seeking behavior was collected using Women's Exposure to the Stressful Life Events Test, and General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHQ) respectively. Data were cleaned, coded, and entered into EPI-Info version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: The prevalence of stressful life events and help-seeking behaviors was 47.9 % and 38.7 % respectively. Reproductive-age women with poor social support (AOR =2.392, 95 % CI: 1.422, 4.026), moderate social support (AOR =1.861, 95 % CI: 1.341, 2.583), husband alcohol users (AOR =1.496, 95 % CI: 1.027, 2.178), husband chat users (AOR =2.962, 95 % CI: 1.140, 7.696), and having ever suicidal attempt (AOR =8.702, CI: 1.719, 44.049), were positively associated with stressful life events. Conclusion: Nearly half of reproductive-age women had stressful life events. Thus, it is important to give serious attention to addressing those identified factors to increase public awareness, especially among husbands, their families, and elected authorities.
AB - Background: Stressful life events are a significant public health issue worldwide. Despite its mental, psychological, and social problems, important questions about the prevalence and risk factors remained unanswered. Therefore, this study aimed to show major life events and help-seeking behaviors among women in the reproductive-age group. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted using a multistage cluster sampling technique to get a total of 845 study participants from March 20 to April 29, 2021. Exposure to stressful life events and help-seeking behavior was collected using Women's Exposure to the Stressful Life Events Test, and General Help-Seeking Questionnaire (GHQ) respectively. Data were cleaned, coded, and entered into EPI-Info version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: The prevalence of stressful life events and help-seeking behaviors was 47.9 % and 38.7 % respectively. Reproductive-age women with poor social support (AOR =2.392, 95 % CI: 1.422, 4.026), moderate social support (AOR =1.861, 95 % CI: 1.341, 2.583), husband alcohol users (AOR =1.496, 95 % CI: 1.027, 2.178), husband chat users (AOR =2.962, 95 % CI: 1.140, 7.696), and having ever suicidal attempt (AOR =8.702, CI: 1.719, 44.049), were positively associated with stressful life events. Conclusion: Nearly half of reproductive-age women had stressful life events. Thus, it is important to give serious attention to addressing those identified factors to increase public awareness, especially among husbands, their families, and elected authorities.
KW - Stressful life events
KW - Life events
KW - Life-change events
KW - Reproductive-age women
KW - Help-seeking behaviors
U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2023.11.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2023.11.011
M3 - Article
SN - 0165-0327
VL - 346
SP - 310
EP - 316
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
ER -