Medical Science To See Depression Among Diabetic and Asthmatic Patients: A Comparative Study.

Objective- The aim of the present study is to compare the levels of depression among diabetic and asthmatic pa- tients. Asthma and diabetes are chronic conditions and were considered earlier as having a psychosomatic origin. In the past, prominent psychoanalysts such as Menninger (1935) and Dunbar (1936) claimed that diabetes was a part of psychosomatic disease caused by emotional stress. Psychiatric morbidity among asthmatics has also been extensively studied worldwide. The purpose of this inves- tigation was to identify psychiatric morbidity among diabetic patients as compared to asthmatics and their Depression level. So, this study was planned to assess the presence of depression in diabetes and asthma. Methodology-The sample size is 60 in total, where 30 diabetic and 30 asthmatic patients from different medical hospitals of Raipur and Chandigarh has been taken for the study through purposive sampling. The tools used for assessing the variables are Beck depression inventory (BDI).