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Table 2 Demographic characteristics of participants from rural and urban Nigerian communities involved in the test-retest reliability testing of the Igbo-HADS on 11 August 2014

From: Detecting anxiety and depression among people with limited literacy living with chronic low back pain in Nigeria: adaptation and validation of the hospital anxiety and depression scale

n = 50

Frequency (%)

Mean (SD)

Gender

 Female

32 (64.0)

 

 Male

18 (36.0)

 

Habitation

 Rural

20 (40.0)

 

 Urban

30 (60.0)

 

Age (years)

 

45.2 (11.55)

Education (years)

 

13.3 (7.14)

Current marital status

 Currently married

37 (74.0)

 

 Never married

8 (16.0)

 

 Widowed

4 (8.0)

 

 Separated

1 (2.0)

 

Work status

 Paid work

25 (50.0)

 

 Self-employed (own business or farming)

19 (38.0)

 

 Keeping house/homemaker

2 (4.0)

 

 Student

2 (4.0)

 

 Non-paid work (volunteer or charity)

1 (2.0)

 

 Unemployed (health reasons)

1 (2.0)

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