Quality of life and diabetes mellitus among diabetic adult patients in an urban slum area

Abstract

Background: Quality of life studies help us to develop models that tend to improve the overall health status of the patients. The objective was to study effect of diabetes mellitus on quality of life of diabetic adult patients in an urban slum area. Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study was carried out among 64 eligible known cases of diabetes for a period of three months. For recording questions related to quality of life, questionnaire which was validated was used. The data was expressed as mean and standard deviation. Results: The overall quality of life (role limitation due to physical health) was not much affected as the average scores are above 3.5 which indicates “better quality of life”. The quality of life for heavy activities was slightly affected due to diabetes. But the patients were able to do the mild activities compared to heavy physical activities. Diabetes has affected their quality of life. But in terms of fatigue it has not been much affected. Overall the mean of this symptom related quality of life, was better. This may be due to good glycemic control. Comparatively frequent urination bothered the diabetic patients. Conclusions: Diabetes has some impact on the quality of life of patients as seen from the study.

Quality of Life and Diabetes in India: A Scoping Review

“…[ 41 ] Seven studies have conducted QoL assessment among both T1D and T2D patients with diabetes. [ 15 25 32 36 38 42 43 ]…”

“… Diabetes is defined as either requiring oral or injectable antidiabetic medication or having random blood glucose level >200 mg/dL n =50 cases and 50 control Sample size justification: not provided Study period not mentioned men=54% Mean age of participants=48.25 ± (19.06) Mean duration of diabetes=5.6 ± (2.3) WHO QOL-BREF (Hindi) The QoL scores of all four domains were significantly lower among diabetic patients as compared to their controls. 62% of the patients with diabetes had insomnia Factors that affected QoL- women, poor glycemic control, insomnia, duration of illness for longer than 1-year and increased BMI had impaired QoL [ 43 ] Kokiwar PR et al ., 2017 Kokiwar PR et al ., 2017 Hyderabad Telengana South India Cross-sectional study. Known case of diabetes >25 years of age.…”