Gandhari Basu|Dipanjan Nandi|Sujata Biswas|Sujit Kumar Roy
Quality of life and depression among diabetic patients attending the lifestyle clinic of a teaching hospital, West Bengal
College of Medicine & JNM Hospital|West Bengal University of Health Sciences|College of Medicine & JNM Hospital|West Bengal University of Health Sciences|College of Medicine & JNM Hospital|West Bengal University of Health Sciences|College of Medicine & JNM Hospital|West Bengal University of Health Sciences
context coexistence diabetes depression resulted poor quality life reported literature suggested need research assessing correlates quality life along depression diabetic persons aims assess quality life qol prevalence depression associated factors diabetic patients attending lifestyle clinic tertiary healthcare facility eastern india settings design hospitalbased descriptive crosssectional research recruited 219 patients diabetes assess qol depression lifestyle clinic tertiary healthcare facility methods materials quality life assessed help world health organization qol bref instrument depression determined standardized patient health questionnaire 9phq9 sociodemographic diabetesrelated information collected semistructured questionnaire clinical anthropometric examinations conducted statistical analysis used available data initially coded analyzed using spss 220 licensed software results participants median age 54 years illiteracy significantly among females hypertension common comorbidity genderwise difference mean weight height hip circumference qol score psychosocial domain significant mean qol score least social domain highest environmental domain literate patients statistically significantly better qol depression observed significantly females illiterates unemployed respondents conclusions diabetic women lesser literacy increased risk poor qol women illiterates unemployed suffered depression therefore targetspecific routine wellplanned clinic approach needed improve qol mental health respondents