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The association between diabetes and depression

Essmat M. Gemeay, Salma A. Moawed, Essmat A. Mansour, Nagat E. Ebrahiem, Ihab M. Moussa and Wafaa O. Nadrah
Saudi Medical Journal October 2015, 36 (10) 1210-1215; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.11944
Essmat M. Gemeay
From the Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing (Gemeay), the Maternity & Child Health Care Nursing Department (Moawed), College of Nursing, the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing (Mansour, Ebrahiem), the Department of Microbiology (Moussa), College of Science, King Saud University, and the Family Medicine Department (Nadrah), Al-Solimania Primary Health Care Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Nursing (Gemeay), Tanta University, Al Gharbiyah Governorate, and the Medical Surgical Nursing Department (Ebrahiem), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Salma A. Moawed
From the Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing (Gemeay), the Maternity & Child Health Care Nursing Department (Moawed), College of Nursing, the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing (Mansour, Ebrahiem), the Department of Microbiology (Moussa), College of Science, King Saud University, and the Family Medicine Department (Nadrah), Al-Solimania Primary Health Care Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Nursing (Gemeay), Tanta University, Al Gharbiyah Governorate, and the Medical Surgical Nursing Department (Ebrahiem), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Essmat A. Mansour
From the Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing (Gemeay), the Maternity & Child Health Care Nursing Department (Moawed), College of Nursing, the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing (Mansour, Ebrahiem), the Department of Microbiology (Moussa), College of Science, King Saud University, and the Family Medicine Department (Nadrah), Al-Solimania Primary Health Care Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Nursing (Gemeay), Tanta University, Al Gharbiyah Governorate, and the Medical Surgical Nursing Department (Ebrahiem), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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From the Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing (Gemeay), the Maternity & Child Health Care Nursing Department (Moawed), College of Nursing, the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing (Mansour, Ebrahiem), the Department of Microbiology (Moussa), College of Science, King Saud University, and the Family Medicine Department (Nadrah), Al-Solimania Primary Health Care Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Nursing (Gemeay), Tanta University, Al Gharbiyah Governorate, and the Medical Surgical Nursing Department (Ebrahiem), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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Ihab M. Moussa
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vol. 36 no. 10 1210-1215
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.11944
PubMed 
26446333

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 30, 2015
  • Accepted August 26, 2015
  • Published online October 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Essmat M. Gemeay, PhD,
  2. Salma A. Moawed, PhD,
  3. Essmat A. Mansour, PhD⇑,
  4. Nagat E. Ebrahiem, PhD,
  5. Ihab M. Moussa, MD, PhD and
  6. Wafaa O. Nadrah, MD
  1. From the Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing (Gemeay), the Maternity & Child Health Care Nursing Department (Moawed), College of Nursing, the Department of Medical Surgical Nursing (Mansour, Ebrahiem), the Department of Microbiology (Moussa), College of Science, King Saud University, and the Family Medicine Department (Nadrah), Al-Solimania Primary Health Care Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the College of Nursing (Gemeay), Tanta University, Al Gharbiyah Governorate, and the Medical Surgical Nursing Department (Ebrahiem), Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Essmat M. Gemeay, Department of Community Psychiatric Nursing, College of Nursing, King Saud University, PO Box 642, Riyadh 11421, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: egemeay{at}ksu.edu.sa / dressmatgemeay{at}gmail.com
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