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Table 4 Self-reported barriers to health care use among adults with probable depression in Sehore sub-district, 2013–2016

From: Health care use and treatment-seeking for depression symptoms in rural India: an exploratory cross-sectional analysis

Barrier

Number of adults with probable depression who reported barrier (%)

Fees are not affordable

302 (54.3)

Services are too far away

145a(52.3)

Services not currently needed

172 (31.3)

Dislike taking medications

178 (30.9)

Care received is not good enough

148 (26.2)

Care providers do not understand my health problems

135 (23.4)

They don’t have medicines I need

95 (17.3)

They frequently run out of medicines

81 (15.9)

Other reason

56 (11.2)

Seeking some kinds of treatment can make me or my family feel embarrassed

38 (8.1)

  1. All percentages are adjusted for the complex sampling strategy
  2. aonly measured in follow up round, so denominator was 279