Psychiatric Comorbidities in Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (TDM) is a chronic autoimmune disease. that affected carbohydrate metabolism and caused by insulin insufficiency resulting in increased blood glucose. It's one of the most common endocrine and metabolic conditions in childhood. There's 9 million people live with T1DM worldwide according to International Diabetes Federation. In Egypt, 1 in 98 families are impacted and the disease is growing at 6.7% each year. Living with T1DM has been associated with a significant impact on a person's social, mental, and psychological quality of life (QoL). as the individual must adopt blood glucose monitoring, use of injections or diabetes technology for insulin regulation, diet restrictions, and exercise. Also, there's increased risk of developing micro-and macro-vascular complications that result in morbidity and mortality in Long-term uncontrolled DM. therefore, these children and adolescents with T1DM have an increased risk of psychiatric comorbidities like depression, anxiety and sleep disorders, depression is one of the most common disorders. They appear to have a greater incidence of depression, anxiety and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compared to their healthy peers. This is associated with suboptimal diabetes outcomes and better metabolic control has been found to correlate with better quality of life. This occurs especially when diagnosed at earlier age of onset, history of severe hypoglycemia and chronic hyperglycemia. There are no available studies that assess the presence of psychiatric comorbidities in T1DM in our locality.

Inclusion criteria

• Children and adolescents aged between 8 and 15 years, diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 1 and on medical treatment.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with major psychiatric disorders or have cognitive difficulties.
• Patients unable or refuse to give consent.