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*Dr. Saeed Akthar, Dr. Hafiz Shafique Ahmad, Dr. Mussarat Jahan and Dr. Shoaib Ahmed

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Objective: To assess the prevalence of depression in cases of type-II diabetes mellitus presenting at diabetes clinic Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur. Materials & Methods: After scrutinizing by inclusion and exclusion criteria, total 200 type-II diabetics were selected from a diabetic clinic, Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur having age 20-65 years of both gender from 1-03-2018 to 30-09-2018 Depression was assessed in selected by using DSM-IV criteria for Depression. Results: Mean age was 54.37 ± 5.88 years. Out of 200 patients of diabetes, depression was noted in 46 (23%) patients. Most (98,49%) of the patients were between 51-65 years but difference of depression with age group was not statistically significant with p value 0.8958. Total 19 (20.88%) male patients and 27 (24.77%) female patients were found with depression. But depression was insignificantly associated with gender with p value 0.6315. Total 11 (14.29%) patients found with depression having duration of diabetes mellitus ?3 years and 35 (28.46%) patients found with depression having duration of diabetes mellitus >3 years. Depression was significantly associated with duration of diabetes mellitus with p value 0.032. Conclusion: Our study concluded that prevalence of depression in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients was much higher and have shown positive association with extremes of ages and duration of disease.