The prevalence and correlates of depression among patients with chronic diseases in the United Arab Emirates

• A. J. Alkaabi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• A. Alkous,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• K. Mahmoud,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• A. AlMansoori,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• Iffat Elbarazi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• Abubaker Suliman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8906-3590

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• Zufishan Alam,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• Fatheya AlAwadi,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ambulatory Health Services, SEHA, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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• Fatima Al-Maskari

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fatma.am@uaeu.ac.ae

  Affiliations Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Zayed Centre for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, AlAin, Abu Dhabi, UAE

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