Abstract: Introduction: Chronic medical illnesses and chronic pain are overlapped with depressive symptoms and associated most of the times with under diagnosed depression. In KSA, eastern province SCD is among the commonest diseases causing chronic pain that require frequent use of potent analgesics like morphine. Hospitalized SCD patients were showing varies behavioral changes, depressive symptoms and death wishes. The aim of the study: to estimate the prevalence of depression in adult SCD patients. Method: cross sectional study was conducted among 308 SCD patients above 18 years including both genders using a questionnaire -Beck Depression Inventory( BDI ) distributed via social media in eastern province-KSA. Results: 38.9% of the sample were not having depression,(23.2%) with mild depression,( 9% ) with borderline clinical depression, ( 20.6% ) with Moderate depression,( 6.8% ) with Severe depression , and ( 1.6% ) with Extreme depression. The prevalence of depression was higher among patients with low income, patients with more than 5 hospitalization/year, And patients with severe painful crisis. Conclusion: most of the sickle cell disease patients showed mild to moderate depressive symptoms however, The prevalence is higher in patients with frequent admissions and frequent painful crisis which may suggest their need for a psychiatric follow up.
Keywords: Sickle-Cell Disease, Depression, Eastern Province, KSA.
Title: Depression in Sickle-Cell Disease patients in the Eastern Province
Author: Zahra Aljumah, Sayed Ibrahim Ali, Maryam Al-Saleem, Kawthar Almogarab, Fatima Alghadeer, Fatimah AlEssa
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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