Diabetes auto-referido em idosos: prevalência, fatores associados e práticas de controle

Abstract

The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of self-reported

Acesso e adesão a medicamentos entre pessoas com diabetes no Brasil: evidências da PNAUM

“…revealed a hospitalization rate of 10.26% among people who reported having a chronic disease. Francisco et al 45 , in turn, reported a hospitalization rate of 19.6% among the elderly with DM in municipalities in the state of São Paulo. Despite the different designs, the studies indicate that hospitalization rates among people with DM are higher than the estimates obtained from the Datasus Hospital Information System (HIS), as described by Santos et al 7 .…”

Qualidade de vida e características dos pacientes diabéticos

“…Educative interventions destined to facilitate the development of specific skills to face diabetes may improve the quality of life of patients carrying this disease 24 . Diabetes type 2, in general, reveals itself in a stage of life in which the individual already has fairly consolidated habits 25 , being important to perform educative actions and discussion groups so to acquire knowledge and skills on the daily self-care necessary to handle the disease 4 . Considering the complexity of its treatment, education on diabetes is the cornerstone for handling and controlling the disease, so that patients can achieve or preserve their quality of life 26 .…”

“…Despite ocurring in any age group, in general, DM2 is diagnosed in patients aged above 40 years 3 . It is important to highlight that diabetes have high morbimortality, being the main causes of death, renal failure, amputation of a lower limb, blindness and cardiovascular disease, including coronary diseases and cerebrovascular accident 4 . Studies indicate that the quality of life (QOL) of patients with DM is lower than that of those without the disease, and the aspects involved in this relation are not yet totally known.…”

Análise da percepçãp dos diabéticos tipo 2 sobre a doença e o tratamento

“…7 Na parte dos dados gerais sobre a doença, sobre o tempo de diagnóstico, a média foi de 11,3 anos, onde as maiores porcentagens foram na faixa de 1 à 5 anos (43%), resultado que corrobora com um estudo realizado em 2011, o qual mostrou que o tempo de diagnóstico que prevaleceu em meio a pesquisa foi de menos de 5 anos. 8 Outro estudo elaborado em 2008 também obteve resultados semelhantes, obtendo como média de tempo de diagnóstico, um período de 10,2 anos. 9 Apesar dos diabéticos do presente estudo conviverem mais de uma década com o diabetes, o conhecimento acerca da doença e o tratamento é bastante insatisfatório.…”