Aims Psychological comorbidity, such as depression and/or diabetes‐specific emotional
distress (diabetes distress), is widespread in people with Type 2 diabetes and is associated …

Background Patients with chronic diseases commonly report fears of illness or symptoms
recurring or worsening. These fears have been addressed from an illness-specific …

Depression presents in roughly 20% of people with diabetes worldwide, and adversely
affects quality of life and treatment outcomes. The causes of depression in diabetes are …

Abstract The Maastricht Study is an extensive phenoty** study that focuses on the etiology
of type 2 diabetes (T2DM), its classic complications, and its emerging comorbidities. The …

OBJECTIVE—The purpose of this study was to describe the development of the Diabetes
Distress Scale (DDS), a new instrument for the assessment of diabetes-related emotional …

Background: Burden of treatment refers to the workload of health care as well as its impact
on patient functioning and well-being. We set out to build a conceptual framework of issues …

Abstract Type 1 (T1D) and Type 2 diabetes (T2D) represent a demanding set of
biopsychosocial challenges for patients and their families, whether the age of disease onset …

Aims/hypothesis We wanted to identify a five-item short form of the Problem Areas in
Diabetes Scale and a single-item measure for rapid screening of diabetes-related emotional …

Objective Emotional problems are common in adults with diabetes, and knowledge about
how different indicators of emotional problems are related with glycemic control is required …

Emotional distress is a prevailing complex social and publichealth problem in modern
societies. About 9.2% of people worldwide have had suicidal ideation at least once in their …