scholarly journals Health Status Evaluation of Type 2 Diabetics from Two Northern Hospitals of Peru

Author(s):  
Franco León-Jiménez ◽  
Daysi Barreto-Pérez ◽  
Lida Altamirano-Cardozo ◽  
Blanca Loayza-Enríquez ◽  
Juanita Farfán-García

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

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-336
Author(s):  
Franco León-Jiménez ◽  
Daysi Barreto-Pérez ◽  
Lida Altamirano-Cardozo ◽  
Blanca Loayza-Enríquez ◽  
Juanita Farfán-García

Objetive: To describe illness related knowledge features, mental health, adherence to therapy and quality of life on type 2 diabetes patients from two hospitals from northern Peru. Material and Methods: Cross sectional descriptive study. A cense was made. Descriptive statistics and exploratory analysis were employed. Results: there were 382 diabetes 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% referred 2 to 4 outpatient evaluations in the last two years; 28.6% reported to have been infected by COVID-19: 35,5% in Lambayeque and 23.8% in Piura; 17.8% had poor knowledge about the disease. About mental health, 91.9% had Depression, 75% Anxiety and 72.8%, 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 burden”, “anxiety” and “sexual performance”. In the exploratory multivariate analysis, depression was associated with high quality of life. Conclusion: disease 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. There were no association between sociodemographic characteristics, mental health, knowledge, adherence, with quality of life.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Supriya Patil ◽  
Yamini Patil ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Patil

Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disorder that disturbs the quality of life (QOL) of patients. Therefore, evaluation of diabetes- related QOL could be a key outcome measure for its management. This study assessed the QOL in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients using the World Health Organization (WHO) quality of life (QOL)˗BREF questionnaire and disease-specific appraisal of diabetes scale (ADS). In this cross-sectional study, 520 T2DM patients were included. Patients’ demographic data, clinical information was collected through interviews, and the WHOQOL-BREF instrument and ADS were used for the QOL of patients. Statistical analysis was performed by using R software (Version 3.6.0). The mean ADS scores were lower in controlled diabetic subjects (18.50±3.08) and higher in uncontrolled diabetic subjects (19.29±2.73) (P<0.05). For WHOQOL-BREF, the mean scores for all the domains (overall general health, physical, psychological, social, and environmental) were significantly higher in controlled diabetic subjects (P<0.001). In addition, the age, duration of diabetes, associated comorbidities, treatment, and HbA1c level of patients showed a highly significant correlation with WHOQOL-BREF (P<0.001). Diabetic patients had poor-to-average QOL. Therefore, public health measures and education of diabetic patients are essential to create more awareness for improving the QOL of T2DM.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahad Saleem ◽  
Saeedur Rashid Nazir ◽  
MohamedAzmi Hassali ◽  
Sajid Bashir ◽  
Furqan Hashmi ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Spasić ◽  
Radmila Veličković Radovanović ◽  
Aleksandra Catić Đorđević ◽  
Nikola Stefanović ◽  
Tatjana Cvetković

Summary The presence of diabetes mellitus leads to a decrease in life quality in all domains. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) in diabetic patients and the factors affecting it in type 2 diabetic mellitus patients. We conducted a cross-sectional study that included 86 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, in the territory of the City of Niš. Health-related QOL of patients was measured using the short form survey (SF-36) that produces an 8-scale health profile. The average duration of diabetes was 12.76±8.08 years. The best QOL in all areas was observed in patients diagnosed with diabetes less than 10 years ago p<0.05) and younger than 65 years. Male respondents perceived a better QOL compared to women, especially in the vitality and pain domains. The patients with comorbidity (93.64%) had lower QOL score in all domains. There was no significant difference in the QOL of patients with diabetes compared to the level of education. High QOL represents an ultimate goal and an important outcome of all medical interventions in diabetic patients. Factors related to lower QOL included: older age, female gender, and existence of comorbidities. Uncontrolled diabetic patients had a lower QOL than controlled diabetics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Rojas ◽  
Paola Solís Pazmiño ◽  
Richard Gaona ◽  
Fernanda Mollocana ◽  
Ismael Espín ◽  
...  

Introduction: In health decision-making, relevance should be given to the patient's perception of the quality of life derived from the state of health resulting from the use of one or another possible alternative. Worldwide, the utility associated with quality of life is expressed in quality-adjusted life years (QALY). The EQ-5D-5L has shown validity and reliability as a measure of quality of life and utility in health, being studied and validated both in primary care and in diabetic patients. Objective: To measure the perceived quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 in utility measures, in a second-level hospital during 2018 using the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire Spanish version for Ecuador. Patients and methods: Cross-sectional study with adults older than 40 years with type 2 diabetes mellitus in treatment and ambulatory medical assistant. The QALYs were estimated using the calculator on the NATS-INC website. The results were expressed in means with standard deviation or percentages, and measures of association between variables were performed. Results: 57 participants, mainly women, fulfilled the inclusion and exclusion criteria; with an average age of 67.77 years. Regarding the quality of life measured by the EQ-5D-5L instrument, the most frequent state of health was 11111 (28.1%), which means “no discomfort”. A mean of 74.47 was obtained in the EVA and 0.708 in QALY. Conclusions: The participants in this study report a higher level of quality of life compared to countries with higher economic levels, and very similar averages in the scores obtained in the EVA.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Claudia C. de Ornelas Maia ◽  
Arthur de Azevedo Braga ◽  
Flávia Paes ◽  
Sergio Machado ◽  
Mauro Giovanni Carta ◽  
...  

Background: Diabetes is associates with depression and impairment in Quality of Life (QoL). Objective: The objective is to define the frequencies of depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of patients diagnosed with type 1 and 2 diabetes, the amount of impairment of QoL and the weight of depression and anxiety in determining the QoL in such of patients. Methods: A total of 210 patients were divided into two groups (type 1 and type 2). Patients completed the HADS and WHOQoL-bref. Results: Groups showed a high prevalence of anxiety (type 1 = 60%, type 2 = 43.8%) and depression (type 1 = 52.4%, type 2 = 38.1%), both measures were significantly higher (p < 0.05) in diabetes type 1 patients. Type 1 patients also showed a QoL in the overall assessment and the physical, psychological and social relations domains. In both Type 1 and 2 diabetes poor QoL was found associated by anxiety and depression comorbidity. Conclusion: In overall diabetes patients depression and anxiety seems to be a determinant of poor QoL.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document