Clinical characteristics of individuals with serious mental illness and type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Data from 157 individuals with serious mental illness and comorbid diabetes enrolled in an ongoing treatment study were used to examine clinical correlates of diabetes control.

Methods

Factors assessed included depressive symptoms (Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale), global psychopathology severity (Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale), and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), a biomarker of diabetes control.

Results

Seventy-seven participants had depression, 40 had schizophrenia, and 40 had bipolar disorder. Most were moderately to severely depressed with poor diabetes control. No correlation between diagnosis and diabetes control was found after adjustment for gender, race, health literacy, diabetes duration, and diabetes knowledge. Greater depression sever

SUBMITTER: Sajatovic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4315335 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature