EVALUATION OF DISABILITY AND DEPRESSION IN PATIENT WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS IN KERMAN

Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disease in the world and it’s an important cause of longterm health problems and the most frequency reported reason for disability in the papulation. To determine the relationship between disability and depression cross sectioanl study in kerman was design in OA patients. OA was diagnosed by criteria of American college of Rheumatology, disability measured with Clin-HAQ and depression measured with Beck inventory questionnaire. Of 200 OA patients 83.5% were female, meanage of this population was 54.1±11.3 years, 6 pearson had treuma, 21 diabetes mellitus and 52 had hypertension, mean of MBI was 26.6±5.5 kg/m2 and depression were 16.6±9.3 and disability was 0.97±0.4 wald foeward stepwise logestic regression models had been shown that depression and female sex were significants predictors for disability and disability was significants predictors for depression. OA Occurred in elderly people Age > 50 and is more frequent in women than men. Depression and disability have relationship together and which of them has a risk factor for other in patients with OA.