Comparing mental health of people with type I diabetes mellitus and non-diabetic people

Purpose: diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease which widely affects individual health and social performance. the purpose of this study was to compare the mental health of patients with type i diabetes and non-diabetic individuals. materials and methods: this was a comparative after-the-fact study conducted in 2011. the participants included 50 patients with type i diabetes who were members of diabetic association of ahvaz city, iran. also, 50 non-diabetic relatives of the patients were selected as the control group. both groups were similar regarding sex and educational status. the 28-item general health questionnaire (ghq-28) was distributed among both groups. the acquired data were analyzed using analysis of variance (anova) and multivariate variance analysis method (manova). results: there was a significant difference regarding mental health between those with type i diabetes and those without diabetes (p < .001) except in social dysfunction. conclusion: type i diabetes can affect the mental health of the patients.