Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics Researchers Illuminate Research in Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions (PHQ-9, CES-D, health insurance data-who is identified with depression? A Population-based study in …): Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions

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2023 APR 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators publish new report on nutritional and metabolic diseases and conditions. According to news originating from the Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Key points Patients with diabetes often have comorbid depression.”

Financial supporters for this research include German Federal Ministry of Education And Research; Deutsches Diabetes-zentrum.

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics: “Those patients are struggling to meet their treatment goals. Thus, they have a higher risk of getting diabetes related complications as for example coronary heart diseases. A lot of different tools and instruments are available to diagnose depression, to screen for depression among patients with diabetes or to identify depression symptoms or depressive disorder in clinical or epidemiological studies, including interview, questionnaires or claims data. It would be helpful to know if the tools that are used identify the same people or, if this is not the case, whether people identified by different tools have different characteristics or health outcomes. We found that different methods do not identify the same people with depression. There was no clear pattern of differences between the identified groups, however, we found some initial indications that the method chosen is related to particular underlying characteristics in the population identified.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Further research with larger data sets is necessary to see if there are differences among the persons that are identified by different tools to give recommendations which screening tool to use for what purpose.”

For more information on this research see: PHQ-9, CES-D, health insurance data-who is identified with depression? A Population-based study in persons with diabetes. Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2023,15(1):1-13. (Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome - http://www.dmsjournal.com/). The publisher for Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome is BMC.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13098-023-01028-7.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Ute Linnenkamp, Institute for Health Services Research and Health Economics, German Diabetes Center, Leibniz Center for Diabetes Research at Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf. Additional authors for this research include Veronika Gontscharuk, Katherine Ogurtsova, Manuela Brune, Nadezda Chernyak, Tatjana Kvitkina, Werner Arend, Imke Schmitz-Losem, Johannes Kruse, Norbert Hermanns, Bernd Kulzer, Silvia M. A. A. Evers, Mickael Hiligsmann, Barbara Hoffmann, Andrea Icks, Silke Andrich.