Open AccessA Study on Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes
Author(s) -
Mücahit Sabri Bilgin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the annals of clinical and analytical medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2667-663X
DOI - 10.4328/jcam.2461
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , quality (philosophy) , quality of life (healthcare) , intensive care medicine , endocrinology , nursing , philosophy , epistemology
Aim: Diabetes Mellitus, a chronic progressive disorder, characterized with hyperglycemia and derangements of carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolism. During its course microvascular, macrovascular and neurologic complications may develop. Being a patient with a chronic disorder like diabetes mellitus not only limits physical activities but also hinders other activities such as social life, education, career, occupational opportunities, and transportation, thus it influences individuals life quality unfavorably. Material and Method: Patient group with 229 individuals diagnosed with Type 2 DM and control group with 77 healthy individuals are involved in this study. A form questioning socio-demographic characteristics, past medical and family history and SF36 and EQ-5d life quality surveys are applied to individuals. 130 of the 306 people included in the study (42.5%) in the group with complications, 99 (32.4%) complications in the group, 77 (25.2%) were in the control group. Analyzing complicated group; 74 persons (56.9%) coronary artery disease, 40 patients (30.8%) nephropathy, 37 patients (28.5%) retinopathy, 35 patients (26.9%) neuropathy, 1 person (0.8%) stroke was found to be enhanced.In our study, it is observed that some factors such as low education level, low income level, female gender, obesity, suffering from any diabetic complication and insulin treatment effected life quality adversely. Results: Efforts including increasing sociocultural level in society, making society gain the habit of healthy nutrition and regular exercise, educating patients properly about diabetus mellitus and serving adequate health service will evidently result in more quality life. Doing more research studies about diabetus mellitus and life quality, checking laboratory results and other parameters at determined intervals within year, and comparing those with life quailty survey results will enlighten us about what we can do further to increase life quality of diabetic patients