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

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.