Psychosocial and Medical Aspects of Anxiety-Depressive Disorders in Diabetic Patients in Baghdad, Iraq Hasan Abdul Mahdi A* Department of Pediatric & Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq *Corresponding author: Abdul Mahdi A Hasan Department of Pediatric & Mental Health Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Hillah City, Iraq; Phone number: 009647716150716; E-mail: imad_dna@yahoo.com
Online published on 3 April, 2018. Abstract Diabetes melliltus is a chronic disorder characterized by impaired metabolism of glucose due to deficiency or ineffectiveness of endogenously execrated insulin, this chronic disorder Is associated with late development of vascular, neurological and psychological complications. To determine the prevalence of ADD among the diabetic patients and to find out which psychiatric disorders are predominate and to find out the correlation between psychiatric morbidity and socio demographic data. The study sample includes 80 patients 31 male, 49 female; it was carried at the Baghdad teaching hospital, medical outpatient clinic. The period of the study was from 1st of june 2016 to 1st of june 2017, the age’s range of the sample is between 20–60 years old. the sample includes both types of diabetes mellitus. General health questionnaire and semi-structure interview in the sample assessment were adapted. Among these psychiatric cases depression include AD and MDD was found to be the 1st diagnosis 64.3% allowed by anxity disorders 35.7%. There is high psychiatric morbidity among the diabetic patients presented mainly as depression and followed by anxiety disorders in addition to a high physical complications among the total sample. Top Keywords Psychosocial, Anxiety-depressive disorders, diabetic patients. Top |