Introduction:
Diabetes mellitus is
a common chronic metabolic disease. Optimal management of psychiatric problems,
especially depression, may lead to better control of blood glucose levels in
diabetics. Unfortunately, depression is usually neglected in medical diseases.
We evaluated the prevalence of depression using a simple test, (Beck test), to
screen. depression in diabetics.
Methodology: This Cross sectional study was
performed on 100 patient's refered to diabetes clinic in zabol during a 4-month
period. Beck inventory questionnaire for depression was used for data
collection. Beck inventory is a depression screening test having 21 indicators
13for cognitive and 8 for physical symptoms. To analyze the data, the Beck test
scores for each case were added. Scores of 0–9 were considered as "without
depression", 10-16 "slight depression", 17–29 "moderate
depression" and scores of 30-63 as "severe depression".
Chi–square test and spearman correlation coefficient were used for data analysis
Results: Results showed that the
majority of patients (52%) were female. The majority of patients (52%) suffered
type 2 diabetes. Results suggested that the patients that most of men (23%) has
mild depression and 12% in average and the majority of women (18%) have moderate depression and 10% had severe
depression. The majority of patients (38%) had mild depression and moderate
depression (30%) and 13% had severe depression.
Conclusion: Our findings revealed high
prevalence of depression symptoms among diabetic patients (type I and II).
Considering the conventional simple therapies for depression, proper screening
among diabetics seems to be necessary.
heydari M, shahraki vahed A, anbari M. The Survey Frequency and Severity of Dependence in Patientswith Diabetes Referred to Diabetes Clinic City of Zabol in 1389. . J Diabetes Nurs 2014; 1 (2) :32-38 URL: http://jdn.zbmu.ac.ir/article-1-37-en.html