Prevalence of Depression and Associated Factors Among Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertensive Patient at Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia

Esubalew Tesfahun; Samual Abebe

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Prevalence of Depression and Associated Factors Among Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertensive Patient at Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia

Esubalew Tesfahun, Samual Abebe

Published in American Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (Volume 6, Issue 3)

Received: 11 August 2021 Accepted: 23 August 2021 Published: 31 August 2021

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Background: The research finding confirmed that chronic illnesses are the major factors that exposed people to depression which is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel the way you think and how you act.. Currently the incidence of depression increase among people affected with chronic illness. Despite this, however, there is scarcity of evidence on risk factors in the current research setting. Therefore, the aim of this research to quantify the prevalence and factors affecting the depression among diabetes mellitus and hypertensive client follow up in Debre Berhan Referral Hospital (DBRH), Ethiopia. Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study design using both quantitative and qualitative data were done among patient attending outpatient and inpatient department of DBRH. Pretested standardized semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from randomly selected respondents. Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used to assess depression. To investigate factors associated with the magnitude of depression binary logistic regression analysis was done. Finally, variables with a P-value less than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant from the multivariate logistic regression. Result: A total of 236 respondents were interviewed with98.7% response rate. The prevalence of depression among Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and hypertensive were 19.49%, 19 (8.5%) of DM patients, 7 (2.97%) of hypertension patients and 20 (8.47%) of both DM and Hypertension patients were depressed. Conclusion: The result of this study confirmed that high prevalence of depression among diabetes mellitus and hypertensive clients. The type chronic illness, control the illness, history of mental illness, sleep disorder and substance use the past three months were significantly associated. Attention should be given in evaluating the patients for depression.

Published in	American Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology (Volume 6, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajset.20210603.13
Page(s)	64-67
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Depression, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertensive, Chronic Illness, Prevalence

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Esubalew Tesfahun, Samual Abebe. Prevalence of Depression and Associated Factors Among Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertensive Patient at Debre Berhan Referral Hospital, Ethiopia. Am J Sci Eng Technol. 2021;6(3):64-67. doi: 10.11648/j.ajset.20210603.13

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Esubalew Tesfahun

Department of Public Health, College of Health Science, Debre Berhan University, Debre Berhan, Ethiopia
Samual Abebe

Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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