Results: The prevalence of depression in patients with T2DM assessed by the PHQ - 9 was 39% overall, and classified into three subtypes: severe (2, 8%), moderate (9, 5%) and mild depression (26, 7%) and by clinical criteria of ICD 10 was 31, 4% in which severe (7, 6%), moderate (19, 5%) and mild depression (4, 3%).