Research Article
Common Mental Disorder and Its Associated Factors among Prisoners in North Wollo Zone Correctional Institutions, Northeastern Ethiopia
Table 2
Sociodemographic characteristics of respondents in North Wollo zone correctional institutions, Northeast Ethiopia.
| Characteristics | Category | Frequency | Percent |
| Age in years | 18-27 | 173 | 43.1 |
| | 28-37 | 141 | 35.2 | 38-47 | 44 | 11 | 48-57 | 16 | 4 | ≥58 | 27 | 6.7 |
| Sex | Male | 386 | 96.3 | Female | 15 | 3.7 |
| Marital status | Single | 208 | 51.9 | Married | 163 | 40.6 | Divorced | 18 | 4.5 | Widowed | 12 | 3.0 |
| Residence | Urban | 197 | 49.1 | Rural | 204 | 50.9 |
| Educational status | Cannot read and write | 65 | 16.2 | Can read and write | 336 | 83.8 |
| Ethnicity | Amhara | 386 | 96.3 | Oromo | 8 | 2 | Othersꜛ | 7 | 1.7 |
| Religion | Orthodox | 346 | 86.3 | Muslim | 46 | 11.5 | Others⸸ | 9 | 2.2 |
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ꜛTigre and Afar, ⸸protestant and catholic.
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