Frequency of Anxiety and Depression among Diabetic Patients and Association with duration of Diabetes Mellitus

Authors

  • Muhammad Ilyas Jat
  • Abdul Rab Bhutto
  • Nasir Hussain
  • Waqas Anwar

Keywords:

Diabetes Mellitus, Anxiety, Depression.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of Anxiety and Depression among Diabetic patients and
association with duration of Diabetes Mellitus.
METHODOLOGY: Descriptive cross-sectional study conducted at the Out-patient Department (OPD) of
Department of Medicine and Allied, Al-Tibri Medical College hospital, Karachi from August 2017 to
December 2017. Total 194 patients of both gender with age range from 18 and 70 years suffering from
Diabetes Mellitus type 2 were enrolled. The duration of diabetes was taken as less than 5 years, 5-7
years and above 7 years. The frequency of Anxiety and Depression were assessed by Beck Anxiety
Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. The data was analyzed by using SPSS version 20.
RESULTS: The average age of the patients was 50.35±8.85. Out of 194 cases 102 (52.6%) were females
and 92(47.40%) were males. Amongst total (92.80%) were married. Anxiety was found to be 47(24.2%)
mild to moderate anxiety, 33(17.0%) suffering from moderate to severe anxiety and 58 (29.9%) were
having severe anxiety. Depression was 28 (14.4%) mild depression, 74 (38.1%) moderate depression and
40 (20.6%) severe depression. Statistically depression was significantly associated with duration of
diabetes with P-value of 0.000.
CONCLUSION: It is to be concluded that the frequency of anxiety and depression in patients of Diabetes
is very high and depression is significantly associated with duration of Diabetes Mellitus.

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Published

12-04-2019

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Jat MI, Bhutto AR, Hussain N, Anwar W. Frequency of Anxiety and Depression among Diabetic Patients and Association with duration of Diabetes Mellitus. J Liaq Uni Med Health Sci [Internet]. 2019 Apr. 12 [cited 2024 Dec. 22];17(03):170-3. Available from: http://ojs.lumhs.edu.pk/index.php/jlumhs/article/view/77

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Vol. 17 No. 03 (2018): Journal Of Liaquat University of Medical & Health Sciences

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