Low Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes in Iran

Pishdad, Gholam Reza

doi:10.2337/diacare.28.4.927

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“…It affects approximately 1 in every 400-600 children and adolescents [2]. Childhood diabetes adversely affects health related quality of life (HRQOL) of the patients and their families.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module

Jafari

Forouzandeh

Bagheri

et al. 2011

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BackgroundThe aim of this study was to measure health related quality of life (HRQOL) in Iranian children with type 1 diabetes and to test the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module.MethodsParticipants were 94 children and adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for at least 3 months in Shiraz, southern Iran. Convergent, discriminant, and construct validity of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module were assessed. Moreover, internal consistency was checked by Cronbach's alpha coefficient.ResultsCronbach's α for the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module was greater than 0.80 both in the child self-report and parent proxy-report. Both generic and disease-specific versions of the PedsQL showed excellent convergent and acceptable discriminant validity except for 'diabetes symptoms' subscale in the child self-report of the disease-specific module. Moreover, Iranian children with diabetes, as compared with other countries, had lower HRQOL scores.ConclusionsWhile this study showed that the Persian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales has good psychometric properties in children with type 1 diabetes, the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module needs some modifications to be used as a disease-specific quality of life (QOL) measure. Also, more support should be provided for the care of Iranian children with diabetes.

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“…It affects approximately 1 in every 400-600 children and adolescents [2]. Childhood diabetes adversely affects health related quality of life (HRQOL) of the patients and their families.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module

Jafari

Forouzandeh

Bagheri

et al. 2011

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“…On the contrary, type 1 diabetes is of low incidence in Iran (17). The reason for this disproportionate ratio of type 1 to type 2 diabetes in our clinic patients is that the vast majority of doctors (general practitioners, paediatricians and internists) -because of time constraints and other reasons -are inclined to get an endocrinology referral of their insulin-dependent diabetic patients (16).…”

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confidence: 96%

A nurse-managed diabetes care programme

Pishdad

2007

International Journal of Clinical Practice

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“…It is noteworthy that unpublished preliminary results of recent studies reveal that in Iranians aged 30 and older, about 3.4% of rural and up to 5% of urban populations of the country might have type 2 diabetes. To the contrary, type1 diabetes is of low incidence in Iran (35) and the reason for this disproportionate ratio of type 1 to type 2 diabetes in our clinic patients is that the vast majority of physicians (general practitioners, paediatricians and internists) – because of time constraints and other reasons – are inclined to get an endocrinology referral of their type 1 diabetic patients (32). Therefore, not very many of the either type 1 or 2 diabetic patients referred to our clinics are especially difficult to manage.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the physician having to obtain less data, this provides a model of facilitating delivery of care and the improved clinical outcomes can all be ascribed to more intensive diabetes education. Societies with under‐resourced specialist diabetes physicians might particularly benefit from the application of such care (35). Elsewhere, NADC could be a financially profitable model of care for diabetes clinics or offices with significantly much better outcomes for patients.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%