Research Article

Depressive symptoms in African-American type 1 diabetics

  1. Alec Roy M.D.1,*,
  2. Monique Roy M.D.2

Article first published online: 27 FEB 2001

DOI: 10.1002/1520-6394(2001)13:1<28::AID-DA4>3.0.CO;2-G

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Depression and Anxiety

Depression and Anxiety

Volume 13, Issue 1, pages 28–31, 2001

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Roy, A. and Roy, M. (2001), Depressive symptoms in African-American type 1 diabetics. Depression and Anxiety, 13: 28–31. doi: 10.1002/1520-6394(2001)13:1<28::AID-DA4>3.0.CO;2-G

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  1. 1

    Department of Veternas Affairs/New Jersey Health Care System-East Orange Campus, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey

  2. 2

    Department of Ophthalmology, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey

*Psychiatry Service (116A), Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, 385 Tremont and South Centre Streets, East Orange, NJ 07019

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 27 FEB 2001
  2. Article first published online: 27 FEB 2001
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 15 JUN 2000
  4. Manuscript Received: 2 MAR 2000

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  • NIH R01. Grant Number: EY 09860

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Keywords:

  • diabetes;
  • depression;
  • African-Americans;
  • risk factors

Abstract

This study examined depressive symptoms and their correlates in African-American patients with type 1 diabetes. Five-hundred eighty-one diabetics participated in a study on risk factors for retinopathy in African-Americans with type 1 diabetes. Evaluations included structured interview, ocular examination, blood test, and completion of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Among the 581 diabetic patients, 159 (26.9%) had a BDI score >14. Significantly more of these patients were unemployed, had less education, lower socio-economic status, and less personal and family income than those who had a BDI ≤14. Also, significantly more patients with a BDI score >14 had proliferative retinopathy and were receiving disability payments. In the multiple logistic regression, two factors that significantly and independently associated with the BDI score >14 were unemployment or not working due to disability. Both socio-economic and diabetic variables are associated with depressive symptoms among African-American patients with type 1 diabetes. Depression and Anxiety 13:28–31, 2001. © 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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