Determining the Prevalence of Chronic Illness in Patients

PSYCHOLOGY

Chronic disorders including Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) and hypertension are often linked to psychiatric co-morbidities such anxiety, sadness, and somatization (HTN). Depression and anxiety that are brought on by illness have a negative impact on quality of life and increase the amount of money spent on medical treatment. Co-occurring mental problems, on the other hand, go mostly unnoticed and untreated. Our study's goals were to assess the prevalence of common mental illnesses (anxiety, depression, and somatization) among T2DM and HTN patients and to discover the factors related with these common mental disorders. Outpatient services of the Community Health Department of St. Stephen's Hospital, situated in an urban slum in East Delhi, were used as the setting for cross-sectional research. Study participants were people with Type 2 Diabetes (T2DM), Hypertension (HTN), or both. Patient Health Questionnaire-Somatic, Anxiety and Depression Symptoms was used to gather information from the subjects, who were then interviewed (PHQ-SADS). SPSS 20.0 was used to analyze the data. Logistic regression was used to investigate the relationship between variables. 51.5% of those in the research had just hypertension, 25.7% had only type 2 diabetes, and 22.8% had it all. This study reported a 56.4% prevalence of light anxiety, a 45.6% prevalence of moderate anxiety and an 8.8% prevalence of severe anxiety and a prevalence of 79.2% (46.2%) mild anxiety and a 43.75% moderate anxiety and a 10.0% severe depression The research population has a high prevalence of prevalent mental diseases. Awareness and treatment for these disorders should be promoted.

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