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Objective:

To estimate the prevalence of depression among people with diabetes and to examine the association of comorbid depression with lost productivity and health resource utilization in persons with and without diabetes.

Methods:

Cross-sectional survey, enrolling 12,643 individuals aged> 18 years. Clustered, stratified sampling procedure was utilized. This sample represented 0.16% of the Hungarian adult population according to age, gender, and geographic regions. The severity of depressive symptoms was measured by the abbreviated Beck Depression Inventory.

Results:

The prevalence of diabetes in the sample was 6.2%(95% Confidence Interval (CI)= 5.7–6.6), and 13.4%(95% CI= 12.8–13.9) were classified as depressed. Adults with diabetes were two times more likely to have depression (adjusted odds ratio (OR)= 1.83, 95% CI= 1.53–2.19, p<. 001) versus individuals without diabetes. Compared with …