Depression and Anxiety among Patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus in Chitwan Medical College Teaching Hospital, Nepal

Table 5

Association between anxiety and depression with selected disease-related variables of patients.

Variables	Level of anxiety		χ2	value	Level of depression		χ2	n = 296
	No	Yes			No	Yes		value
Duration of disease
<3 years	34 (48.6)	36 (51.4)	0.114	0.735	36 (51.4)	34 (48.6)	3.180	0.075
≥3 years	115 (50.9)	111 (49.1)			89 (39.4)	137 (60.6)
Number of hospital admissions
None	80 (50.3)	79 (49.7)	2.274	0.321	62 (39.0)	97 (61.0)	2.732	0.255
<3	53 (47.3)	59 (52.7)			49 (43.8)	63 (56.2)
34	16 (64.0)	9 (36.0)			14 (56.0)	11 (44.0)
Medicine adherence
Yes	138 (53.7)	119 (46.3)	8.802	0.003	111 (43.2)	146 (56.8)	0.738	0.390
No	11 (28.2)	28 (71.8)			14 (35.9)	25 (64.1)
Satisfaction toward current treatment
Yes	140 (54.3)	118 (45.7)	12.389	<0.001	116 (45.0)	142 (55.0)	6.146	0.013
No	9 (23.7)	29 (76.3)			9 (23.7)	29 (76.3)
Presence of comorbidity
No	61 (55.5)	49 (44.5)	1.833	0.176	55 (50.0)	55 (50.0)	4.332	0.037
Yes	88 (47.3)	98 (52.7)			70 (37.6)	116 (62.4)
Number of comorbidities
None	61(55.5)	49 (44.5)	2.460	0.292	55 (50.0)	55 (50.0)	4.538	0.103
One	47 (44.8)	58 (55.2)			38 (36.2)	67 (63.8)
Two or more	41 (50.6)	40 (49.4)			32 (39.5)	49 (60.5)
H/o diabetes in family
Yes	65 (52.0)	60 (48.0)	0.239	0.625	37 (29.6)	88 (70.4)	14.147	<0.001
No	84 (49.1)	87 (50.9)			88 (51.5)	83 (48.5)
H/o mental problem in family
Yes	6 (21.4)	22 (78.6)	10.339	0.001	6 (21.4)	22 (78.6)	5.485	0.019
No	143 (53.4)	125 (46.6)			119 (44.4)	149 (55.6)