A Study on Prevalence of Depression among Diabetic Patients at Rural Health Centre Marappadi
Abstract
Background: Depression is a common mental
disorder characterized by sadness, loss of interest or
pleasure, feeling of guilt or low self worth, disturbed sleep
and/or appetite, feeling of tiredness and poor concentration.
At its most severe form depression can lead to suicides and
when mild, may be inapparent. But when depression is
moderate or severe they need medication and counseling.
At least 350 million people live with depression and is the
leading cause of disability worldwide. Depression is a
significant co-morbid condition in chronic illness and little is
known about the prevalence of depression or depressive
symptoms in the diabetic patients. Objectives: To assess
the prevalence of depression among diabetic patients and to
find out the demographic factors associated with depression.
Methodology: Community based cross sectional study was
conducted during April 2016 - September 2016. 100 diabetic
patients aged (≥ 40 years) who were attending the rural
health centre Marappadi were included for the study.
Depression was assessed by administering the nine item
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ). Result: Majority of the
participants (65%) are females. 55% had primary education,
many of them unemployed (66%) and many of them belong
to joint family (55%). 7% participants have severe
depression, 10% were moderately severe depression and
14% were having moderate depression. There is significant
association with type of family (p = 0.045) and occupation
(p = 0.021) with depression. Conclusion: In our study the
participants are mainly female. Depressive symptoms were
more predominant in females they mostly belonging to joint
family and were unemployed.
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