title: [Depression prevalence and quality of life of patients with advanced schistosomiasis].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the depression prevalence of patients with advanced schistosomiasis, as well as their quality of life.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 356 patients with advanced schistosomiasis were investigated with the Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) and SF-36 scale for their situation of depression and quality of life.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among 356 cases, 306 effective questionnaires were collected. The prevalence of depression was 48.70%. The scores of 8 dimensions of SF-36 of the patients with depression were significantly lower than those of the patients without depression (all P values were less than 0.01), and there were negative correlations between SDS scores and scores of all the dimensions of SF-36 (r values were between -0.839 and -0.182, all P values were less than 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of depression of patients with advanced schistosomiasis is high, and their quality of life is low. Besides active treatment, we should give more attention to their mental health.
authors.affiliation: Fengcheng Municipal Station of Schistosomiasis Control, Jiangxi Province, Fengcheng 331100, China.
authors.forename: Nie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yong-Xin
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015995:Prevalence; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011788:Quality of Life; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000523:psychology*