Abstract

Background & Methods: The aim of the study is to study the relationship between psychiatric co-morbidities in individuals with diabetes mellitus and quality of life. Study was conducted at 100 Patients attending diabetology outpatient department with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus with no other major medical complications. Results: Among those with normal values, (n=40) had no psychiatric co morbidities, (n=04) had Major depressive episode with melancholia and (n=02) had dysthymia P value for fasting blood sugar, post prandial blood sugar and HbA1c was 0.711, 0.576 and 0.381 respectively all of which showed no significance. Conclusion: Our study identifies the presence of psychiatric co-morbidities among individuals with long standing diabetes mellitus as in previous studies. In addition, the clinical and treatment variables of diabetes, might influence the development of psychiatric conditions as well as impair the health related quality of life, although it is of less significance in our study.

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