Open AccessRelationship among Family Support, Mental Resilience and Di-abetic Distress in Patients with Type 2 Diabetic Mellitus during COVID-19
Author(s) -
Huilan Bao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iranian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 2251-6093
pISSN - 2251-6085
DOI - 10.18502/ijph.v50i8.6811
Subject(s) - type 2 diabetes mellitus , correlation , medicine , psychological resilience , distress , mental health , diabetes mellitus , covid-19 , structural equation modeling , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , disease , endocrinology , mathematics , statistics , geometry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychotherapist
Background: To promote the treatment effects and self-management behaviors of the patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study empirically investigated the relationship among family support (FMS), mental resilience (MR) and diabetic distress (DD) in patients with T2DM.
Method: Overall, 256 patients with T2DM from the Department of Endocrinology, Jinhua People’s Hospital, ZheJiang, China were selected and measured for their perceptions of FMS, MR and DD from 2019-2020. Based on the measurements, the difference and correlation matrix under different background variables were studied by one-way variance and correlation analysis. A structural equation was used to analyze the causal path among the measurements.
Results: Patients that differ in marital status, annual family income, medical insurance level, number of complications, and with/without insulin injection therapy were significantly different in their perception of FMS, MR and DD. FMS and MR had a significant negative correlation with DD. FMS used MR as an intermediary variable that affected DD.
Conclusion: Diabetes education, improved medical insurance levels, and targeted psychological consultation for patients could effectively improve their MR and alleviate DD.