OBJECTİVE
The aim of this study was to determine the perceived stress and depression level of diabetes and hypertension patients who applied to the family medicine outpatient clinic and to investigate its relationship with the treatment compliance of the patients.
METHODS
The study was carried out with 201 participants who applied to the Family Medicine outpatient clinic between October and December 2022. Three different groups of Hypertension patients, Diabetes patients and healthy volunteers were included in the study. Beck Depression Scale, Perceived Stress Scale, Morisky Drug Adherence Scale-8 and sociodemographic data questionnaire were applied to the participants by face-to-face interview technique.
RESULTS
In our study, depression and perceived stress scores were lower in the healthy group compared to the other groups (p