The cross-sectional association of stressful life events with depression severity among patients with hypertension and diabetes in Malawi.

ABSTRACT: Depressive disorders are a leading cause of global morbidity and remain disproportionately high in low- and middle-income settings. Stressful life events (SLEs) are known risk factors for depressive episodes and worsened depressive severity, yet are under-researched in comparison to other depression risk factors. As depression is often comorbid with hypertension, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), research into this relationship among patients with NCDs is particularly relevant to increasing opportunities for integrated depression and NCD care. This study aims to estimate the cross-sectional association between SLEs in the three months preceding baseline interviews and baseline depressive severity among patients with at least mild depressive symptoms who are seeking NCD c

SUBMITTER: Landrum KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803137 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature