title: Depression of chronic medical inpatients in China.
abstract: Odds of major depression have significantly increased among adults with chronic diseases. However, the diagnosis of depression is often unrecognized in China. To know the prevalence of depression in medical inpatients with different chronic diseases and to assess the level of unrecognized depression among hospitalized patients, we assessed depression in patients with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and chronic pulmonary heart disease. In this study, it has been shown that 78.9% of patients with pulmonary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, or coronary heart disease have different levels of depression. There were no significant differences in incidence of depression among different gender, age, education levels, marital status, or course of disease. There were no significant differences in total incidence rate of depression and in incidence rate of different levels of depression among the three groups of patients. It is very important to help patients with chronic diseases to reduce their depression by psychological nursing after evaluating their mental status.
authors.affiliation: Nursing School of the Central South University, No. 172 Tongzipo Road, Changsha, Hunan, China. jpzhang1965@163.com
authors.forename: Jingping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Man
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Haishan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Lezhi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Aiyun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D048909:Diabetes Complications / Q000150:complications*; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015995:Prevalence; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000150:complications*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires