Correlation between social factors and anxiety depression in function dyspepsia: do relationships exist?
Introduction Function dyspepsia (FD) may cause patients to suffer from anxiety and depression, and psychosocial disorders would have a significant effect on FD symptoms. Aim To examine the prevalence of anxiety and depression among function dyspepsia (FD) patients and to identify social factors of anxiety depression among FD patients. Material and methods Patients with FD, who fulfilled the Rome III criteria, were enrolled. All patients were administered a validated Chinese version of the self rating scale (SDS) and self rating anxiety scale (SAS) and investigated regarding the patients' social factors. Results A total of 907 patients were enrolled, including 516 (56.89% FD patients within anxiety depression status; SDS mean scores were 51.57 8.22; SAS mean scores were 51.04 7.53; 52.28% were male and 64.25% were female (kh2 262.54, p 0.01) 56.16% were aged 18 29 years, 54.15% were aged 30 39 years, 54.77% were aged 40 49 years, 62.02% were aged 50 59 years, 69.23% were aged above 60 years (kh2 18.14, p 0.01) 67.44% were the retirees; 63.31% were manual workers; 55.10% were soldiers; 43.57% were mental workers; 38.89% were students (kh2 716.53, p 0.01) 64.20% had junior high school degree or below; 57.36% had high school degrees; 42.03% had college degrees; 44.44% had master's or above degrees (kh2 27.21, p 0.05) 38.10% were in good health condition; 61.90% were in poor health condition (kh2 7.94, p 0.01) 20.31% had correlative family history; and 79.69% had no correlative family history (kh2 2.23, p 0.05) Conclusions The FD patients have higher rates of anxiety and depression. Gender, age, occupation, education level, and health condition have a significant effect on anxiety and depression status. Female gender, advanced age, high stress occupation, lower education level, and poor health condition all are risk factors. Family history has no relationship with anxiety and depression among FD patients.
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