Prevalence of depression among adults with sickle cell disease in the Southern Region of Saudi Arabia | Zendy

Sultan Alsubaie | Zendy; Mohammad Abdulrahman Almathami | Zendy; Ahmed Abouelyazid | Zendy; Mohammad Mana Alqahtani | Zendy

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Prevalence of depression among adults with sickle cell disease in the Southern Region of Saudi Arabia

Author(s) -

Sultan Alsubaie,

Mohammad Abdulrahman Almathami,

Ahmed Abouelyazid,

Mohammad Mana Alqahtani

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

pakistan journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1682-024X

pISSN - 1681-715X

DOI - 10.12669/pjms.344.14760

Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , arabic , disease , rating scale , hamilton rating scale for depression , cross sectional study , demography , psychiatry , major depressive disorder , psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics , cognition

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) as other chronic medical conditions is commonly complicated by psychiatric symptoms. Saudi SCD patients are usually originally from Eastern and Southwestern Provinces. The main objective of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of depression among adults with SCD in southern region of Saudi Arabia. We also studied the sociodemographic profiles for these individuals.

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