 Diabetes, depression and employment statusRobert Friis and G. Nanjundappa Social Science & Medicine, 1986, vol. 23, issue 5, 471-475 Abstract: The relationship among diabetes, depression and employment status was assessed. It was hypothesized that: (1) unemployment would be associated with diabetes; and (2) employability problems would be associated with higher depression levels among diabetic persons than among non-diabetic persons. A case-control design was employed in which the cases (n = 56) were currently active diabetic patients and the controls (n = 56) were non-diabetic patients. Subjects were selected from a computerized data base at a primary care clinic located in Orange Country, California, U.S.A. Depression was measured by the CES-D scale. The results were as follows: (1) diabetes was associated with both depression and unemployment; (2) being employed was the most significant predictor of depressive symptomatology followed by being diabetic; and (3) education, type of diabetes, blood sugar level, medication type were not significant predictors of depressive symptomatology in a stepwise multiple regression analysis. Problems of employment among diabetic persons may warrant special employment and counseling programs. Keywords: depression; diabetes; mellitus; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:socmed:v:23:y:1986:i:5:p:471-475 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science & Medicine is currently edited by Ichiro (I.) Kawachi and S.V. (S.V.) Subramanian More articles in Social Science & Medicine from Elsevier |
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