Background and Aim: Hypertension is one of the most prevalent and most important health threats, and is a common asymptomatic disease that causes irreparable complications, especially in the elderly. Therefore, the present study was conducted to determine the level of depression in patients with and without hypertension in Amiralmomenin Hospital of Zabol. Materials and Methods: This is a causal-comparative study. The statistical population of this study is people with high blood pressure. The subjects were selected randomly and the sample size in this study was 120. At the beginning of the completion of the questionnaire, the research goals were explained for the study group. In this study, Beck Depression Inventory was used to survey 60 patients with high blood pressure (30 women and 30 men) who completed the questionnaires and 60 family members and relatives of the same patient The questionnaires were completed.
Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the two groups in terms of depression (p = 0.001, df = 58, T = 11.39), and patients with hypertension suffered more depression. Conclusion: The results of our research indicate that depression in people with hypertension is higher in comparison with healthy people, and most of them have psychological problems.
