“…Various studies have documented that factors associated with depression among diabetes patients using the classical logistic regression. Risk factors were age [ 10 , 15 , 34 ], gender [ 14 , 15 , 35 – 38 ], marital status [ 15 , 35 , 37 , 39 ], educational status [ 34 , 37 , 40 ], hazardous drinking [ 38 , 39 ], medication adherence [ 13 , 39 ], duration lived with DM [ 9 , 14 , 35 ], fasting blood sugar [ 41 ], DM complication [ 10 , 12 , 14 , 36 , 37 ], chronic illness other than DM [ 14 , 34 ], and types of medication [ 34 ].…”