Caregiver Stress Factors for Mental Illness Patients in Southwest Ethiopia, 2024

A dataset presents factors associated with perceived stress levels among primary caregivers of patients with mental illness at Jimma Medical Center in Southwest Ethiopia. The data was collected in 2024 and published by Nuguse Daraje under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It is stored in an XLS file with a size of 9.5 KB.

Use Cases

• Modeling perceived stress levels based on caregiver demographics and patient characteristics mentioned in the description.
• Identifying key risk factors for high caregiver stress in the context of mental illness.
• Comparing caregiver stress correlates across different cultural or healthcare settings.

Strengths

• Dataset is focused on a specific population (caregivers in Southwest Ethiopia) and time (2024).
• It is published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• The file size of 9.5 KB suggests a focused, manageable dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited to a single repeated sentence.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Nuguse Daraje.

Collection Method

Likely gathered via survey or clinical assessment at Jimma Medical Center.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 17:27:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jimma Medical Center, Southwest Ethiopia.