Abstract
Objective: To describe illness related knowledge features, mental health, adherence to therapy and quality of life on type 2 diabetics from two northern hospitals from Peru. Material and methods: Cross sectional descriptive study. A cense was made. Descriptive statistics and exploratory analysis were employed. Results: there were 382 diabetic patients: 289 in Lambayeque and 93 in Piura:112 people were interviewed. The mean age was 59.5 +/- 11.6 years, 58% were women, 59% were from Piura, 43.8% only had primary school and 41.5% reffered 2 to 4 outpatient evaluation in the last two years; 28,6% referred to have been infected by COVID-19: 35,5% in Lambayeque and 23,8% in Piura; 17.8% had poor illness related knowledge’s. About mental health, 62.5% had Depression, 93.8% Anxiety (severe in 80.3%) and 57.1%, both; 50.6% had adequate adherence to therapy. The median of quality of life was 161.5 (IQR=127.1-215) and 24.1% had poor quality of life. In descending order, the more affected dimensions of quality of life were: “control of diabetes”, “Energy and mobility”, “Social charge”, “anxiety” and “sexual performance”. In the exploratory multivariate analysis only anxiety was associated with poor quality of life. Conclusion: illness related knowledge features, mental health, adherence to therapy and quality of life were poor on type 2 diabetics from these two northern cities of Peru. Diabetic anxiety patients had poor quality of life. Source: MeSH
Validating a tool to measure quality of life among type 2 diabetics and exploring variables associated with it
