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Mohammadi M H, Ghal-e riz P, Pahlevanzadeh S, Mosavi G A, Hamzeei M. Competetive Prevalence Incidence and Severity of Depression in Diabetes Treated by Tablets and Insulin. J Arak Uni Med Sci 2001; 4 (1) :25-29
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1- School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
2- Faculty of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
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Diabetes is one of the important endocrine disease. In recent 10 years it has increased to 70 million people in the world. The diabetes patients are aware of that complications may occure in future. Depression is the most common one. This study is a descriptive-analytic which was done in 1999 in Kashan diabetes center. The aim of this research was to determine the incidence and severity of depression in the diabetic patients who were used to take antidiabetic tablets and insulin. For this purpose, the researchers selected 80 diabetic patients to have characteristics to enter the study.  (38 patients were treated by tablets and 42 patients by insulin). Method of sampling was conclude one data were gathered with Beck test and two part questionnaire including demographic and severity of depression in patients taking insulin. Severity of depression was higher than tablet users. On the other hand there was a significant relation between severity of depression and kind of treatment (insulin injection) (P<0.04). Regarding to the findings, however depression in these patients is high and the patients who are taking insulin are at risk of this mental complication and the health team members should take care of them.
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Accepted: 2001/03/21

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