“…This study reveals that the prevalence of depression was consistent with a study done in Italy (27.8%) (Marelli et al, 2020), North Carolina, Taiwan (31.7%) (Fruehwirth et al, 2021), and the United States of America (31.2%) (Batra et al, 2021); but higher than the study done in Bench Sheko zone, Southwest, Ethiopia (21.1%) (Mekonen et al, 2020), and lower than the study done in Italy (72.93%), Turkey (64.6%) (Ayyildiz et al, 2021), Bangladesh (46.9%) (Hasan et al, 2020), Bangladeshi (72%) (Faisal et al, 2021), the United States of America (44%) (Son et al, 2020), Egypt (53.6%) (Ghazawy et al, 2020), Hong Kong (84.7%) (Lai et al, 2020), Gonder, Ethiopia (40.2%) (Ali & Muluneh, 2021) and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (51%) (Sahile et al, 2020). The mild levels of depression were 19.2%, which were similar to studies done in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (18.1%) (Sahile et al, 2020), and Turkey (16.0%) (Ayyildiz et al, 2021). The moderate and severe levels of depression were 10.6% and 0.3%, respectively, which was lower than the study done in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20.9% moderate, 7.2% severe, and 4.6% extremely severe (Sahile et al, 2020) and Turkey, which revealed 26.8% moderate and 10.7% severe (Ayyildiz et al, 2021).…”