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Depressive symptoms and related factors in elderly diabetic patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

R. Gniwa Omezzine ,
W. Bouali ,
A. Belguith Sriha  and
L. Zarrouk
R. Gniwa Omezzine
Affiliation:
Department Of Family Medicine. Tunisia., Monastir Faculty of Medicine, Mahdia, Tunisia
W. Bouali*
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, University Hospital Of Mahdia, Tunisia., Psychiatry, Mahdia, Tunisia
A. Belguith Sriha
Affiliation:
Department Of Community Medicine, Monastir Faculty of Medicine, Mahdia, Tunisia
L. Zarrouk
Affiliation:
Department Of Psychiatry, University Hospital Of Mahdia, Tunisia., Psychiatry, Mahdia, Tunisia
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

Diabetes is a major public health problem in Tunisia. Its prevalence increases with age. In addition, depression, at the top of mental disorders list, mainly remain undiagnosed, in particular in the elderly and consequently untreated.

Objectives

The aim of this study was to estimate depressive symptoms and related factors in elderly diabetic patients.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study, conducted among type 2 diabetic patients aged ≥ 60 years old, attending Mahdia’s primary health center, from January 2019 to March 2019. Depressive symptoms were assessed by using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS).

Results

95 diabetic patients were recruited. The average age was 75 ± 7.4 years and the sex ratio was 0.9. In our sample, 68.4% of patients were categorized according to having depressive symptoms. The proportion of participants with mild and severe depression symptoms were 25.3% and 43.1%, respectively. Analytical results demonstrate many factors which were significantly associated with depressive symptoms: female gender, living alone, history of hypertension, presence of complication, and using insulin (p < 0.05).

Conclusions

Our study shows that depressive symptoms are common in elderly subjects with diabetes, and there have been many significant risk factors associated with it. So there is need for physicians to detect, confirm, and treat depression in elderly diabetic patients.

Keywords

diabetesdepressionelderly
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S237
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