Evaluation of Depression in Adults With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Comparative Study
Muhammad Hamza, Saifullah Chan, Muhammad Usman Sharif, Naveed Ahmed, Ayesha Sharif, Syed Asadullah Agha, Zaid Khan · 2026
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Muhammad Hamza and co-authors compared depression screening results between adults with type 2 diabetes and adults without it. Their study ran from August 2025 to April 2026 and enrolled 114 people, split evenly between the two groups. Everyone completed the nine-item PHQ-9 questionnaire, and a score of ten or more counted as significant depression.
About sixty-one percent of the diabetes group screened positive, against about thirty-three percent of the comparison group. Depression clustered most in the late forties age band and was linked with gender and with how long diabetes had lasted. The spread of severity levels, though, did not differ clearly between groups. The authors conclude that depressive symptoms are far more common among their diabetic patients, a finding that supports routine mood screening inside diabetes care.
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| CREATOR | Muhammad Hamza, Saifullah Chan, Muhammad Usman Sharif, Naveed Ahmed, Ayesha Sharif, Syed Asadullah Agha, Zaid Khan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |