The prevalence and risk factors of depression in patients with diabetes foot ulcer / 中华内分泌外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the prevalence of depression in diabetes foot ulcer patients , and to an-alyze the correlation between depression morbidity and various factors such as age , HbA1c level, and quality of life etc.Methods 73 diabetes foot ulcer patients admitted from Sep .2012 to Sep.2014 were enrolled.Depres-sion was assessed using the 9-item patient health questionnaire (PHQ-9).Data such as the age, sex, duration of diabetes and foot ulcer , HbA1C level, smoking were recorded .The severity of foot ulcer was evaluated by Wagner's classification.The quality of life was scored by short form(SF-36)health survey questionnaire.Results The morbidity of depression in diabetes foot ulcer patients was 49.3%in total and 17.8% in the moderate to severe depression group .The prevalence in patients with HbA 1c≥7.0%was significantly higher than that in pa-tients with HbA1c0.05).Conclusions This study shows a high prevalence of depression symptom in diabetes foot ulcer pa -tients.Depression is associated with HbA1c level, the extent and duration of foot ulcer .