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These include adequacy of study design (prospective cross-sectional, observational, and randomized controlled trial with an adequate control group); recruitment of sample; ascertainment of depression and IR; and control for cofounding variables, such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, and BMI.
In conclusion, in the current relatively healthy primary-care sample, rates of depression in insulin-naive diabetes patients with vascular co-morbidities were not higher than in patients without vascular co-morbidities.
We used the sample size of depression since it is the common disorder reported in northern Uganda [ 33, 39] and this study being a baseline survey for an action research study, we needed to target more than one condition in addition to PTSD.
They used an interpersonal psychosocial stress procedure to examine cortisol reactivity in a small sample of depressed children and youths, aged 8 15 years, compared with a larger, age-matched sample with no evidence of depression or dysphoria.
Patients scoring above cut-off on whichever scale they completed were defined as depressed, providing the overall sample of cases of depression.
The results for the GDS indicated that 30.9% of the sample had symptoms of depression.
Even within our small study sample, extreme consequences of depression were evident: several women spoke of instances of attempted suicide and suicidal ideation.
In the overall sample, the prevalence of depression was associated with the number of chronic medical conditions (OR 1.27; CI: 1.16 1.39).
In our sample the prevalence of depression in female patients was significantly higher than in male patients (58%and43%43 % respectively, p = 0.0189).
