Magnitude of Depression on HIV Patients and Associated Factors in Robe District Health facility, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Introduction: Depression is becoming major health problem among HIV patients. HIVtwo leading cause of disability by the year 2030. Objectives: To assess the magnitude of depression and associated factors on ART patients at Robe health center and Robe didea general hospital. Methods: Health facility based cross-sectional study was conducted. Systematic random sampling technique was used. The number of sample size for this study was 421.The collected data was entered in to EPI INFO Version -7 and then, exported, cleaned and analyzed using SPSS version 22. Data analysis technique such as descriptive and summary was used to present the finding. Association between dependent & independent variables was computed by using logistic regression model at 0.05 level of significance and odds ratio to measure the strength of association with 95 % CI. Result: The magnitude of the depression in our study is 24.2 %. Female were more likely [AOR(95% CI):3.65(1.82,7.43)] to develop depression compared to male, those with clinical stage III patients were more likely to develop depression [AOR(95% CI): 8.87, (1.689, 46.95)] than clinical stage I, those who live alone were more likely to develop depression [AOR(95% CI): 2.3 (1.09, 5.51)], than those who live with family and those with CD4 count < 200 were more likely to develop depression [AOR(95% CI): 4.5 (2.15, 9.64)] than with CD4 count >400. Conclusions: Depression is high among people living on ART. Socio demographic factors like sex, living alone and HIV related factors like CD4 count, HIV clinical stage were show significant association with depression among HIV positive patients. Improving chronic HIV care like early CD4 count and early treatment is recommended.