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In Ethiopia’s 2024–2025 EDHS sample of 11,122 children aged 5–17 years, 9.5% had functional difficulty, with daily depression (6.8%) and anxiety (6.6%) most common.
- Why it matters: Population-level evidence on child functional difficulty in Ethiopia is limited, and the new UNICEF/Washington Group module enables estimating prevalence and identifying factors to guide targeting of support.
- What they did: Using cross-sectional EDHS data (weighted n = 10,726), the study applied multilevel logistic regression for any, non-affective, and affective difficulty across 11 domains plus daily anxiety or depression, accounting for clustering within mothers and survey clusters.
- The result: Non-affective difficulty affected 2.8% (2.2–3.7), and school non-attendance was linked to higher odds (AOR 2.82, 95% CI 2.01–3.96), while girls had lower odds (AOR 0.63, 0.48–0.84).
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