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.
Muhammad Ilyas Jat, Abdul Rab Bhutto, Nasir Hussain, Waqas Anwar. (2018) Frequency of Anxiety and Depression among Diabetic Patients and Association with duration of Diabetes Mellitus, Journal of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Volume-17, Issue-3.
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