Investigating the association between diabetes and mental health

Diabetes is a chronic health condition that affects how the body turns food into energy. Research has demonstrated a relationship between diabetes and various mental health issues, which include psychiatric disorders and other problems that are specific for people living with diabetes. Although previous studies have shed light on the associations between diabetes and various types of mental health issues with a focus on depression and anxiety, much less is known about how diabetes is associated with other dimensions of mental health such as social dysfunction and anhedonia and loss of confidence in a large nationally representative survey from the United Kingdom. The aim of the current study is to replicate the factor structure of the GHQ-12 and investigate how diabetes is related to general mental health and dimensions of mental health. By adopting a train-and-test approach to data from the UKHLS including 2,255 diabetes patients and 14,585 age and sex-matched participants who indicated that they were not clinically diagnosed with diabetes, the current study found that hypotheses are well-supported by the results

Anhedonia · Anxiety · Association (psychology · Depression (economics · Diabetes mellitus · Mental health · Psychiatry · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · Test (biology · Clinical Psychology · Diabetes Management and Education · Diabetes Management and Research · Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology

• The association of depression and anxiety with medical symptom burden in patients with chronic medical illness

  Open Access•Wayne Katon, Elizabeth Lin et al.•General Hospital Psychiatry•2007

  Incluir item

• Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling

  Herbert W Marsh, Alexandre J S Morin et al.•Annual Review of Clinical…•2014

  Incluir item

• The Prevalence of Comorbid Depression in Adults With Diabetes

  Ryan J Anderson, Kenneth E Freedland et al.•Diabetes Care•2001

  Incluir item

• Assessing Psychosocial Distress in Diabetes

  William H Polonsky, Lawrence Fisher et al.•Diabetes Care•2005

  Incluir item

• The prevalence of co‐morbid depression in adults with Type 2 diabetes

  Open Access•S Ali, M A Stone et al.•Diabetic Medicine•2006

  Incluir item

• Examining a Bidirectional Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Diabetes

  Sherita Hill Golden•JAMA•2008

  Incluir item

• Effectiveness of Antipsychotic Drugs in Patients with Chronic Schizophrenia

  Jeffrey A Lieberman, T Scott Stroup et al.•New England Journal of Medicine•2005

  Incluir item

• Multidimensional properties of the General Health Questionnaire

  Open Access•Brian Graetz•Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric…•1991

  Incluir item

• Validation of self-reported chronic conditions and health services in a managed care population11The full text of this article is available at http

  Open Access•Linda Martin, Linda M Martin et al.•American Journal of Preventive…•2000

  Incluir item

• Hostility and Physiological Responses to Acute Stress in People With Type 2 Diabetes

  Ruth A Hackett, Antonio Ivan Lazzarino et al.•Psychosomatic Medicine•2015

  Incluir item

• Diabetes Miles – The Netherlands

  Open Access•Giesje Nefs, Mariska Bot et al.•BMC Public Health•2012

  Incluir item

• Confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in Spanish adolescents

  Open Access•Alicia Padron-Monedero, Alicia Padrón et al.•Quality of Life Research•2011

  Incluir item

• Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Arabic Version of the 12-Item General Health Questionnaire

  Open Access•Tewfik K Daradkeh, Rafia Ghubash et al.•Psychological Reports•2001

  Incluir item

• Validity of self-reported diabetes in health interview surveys for measuring social inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes

  Albert Espelt, Albert Goday et al.•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2012

  Incluir item

• Validade do auto-relato de diabete mellitus gestacional no pós-parto imediato

  Open Access•Maria Alice Souza De Oliveira Dode, Iná S Santos•Cadernos de Saude Publica•2009

  Incluir item

• Understanding the population structure of the GHQ-12

  Open Access•Gareth J Griffith, Kelvyn Jones•Social Science & Medicine•2019

  Incluir item