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- Title
The Mental Health Status and life Quality of Women with Type II Diabetes in Tabriz City, During the Period 2015-2016.
- Authors
Ali Reza Shafiee Kandjani; Hosseinpour, Mohammadreza; Shoja, Habib; Daneshamouz, Hossein; Sakineh Mohammad Alizadeh
- Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the mental health status and life quality of women with type II diabetes in Tabriz City, during the period 2015-2016. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study. The research population included all women aged 18-45 with type 2 diabetes who had referred to Tabriz diabetes centers in the second half of 2015. The sample size of the population included 300 people who were selected based on the cluster sampling method and met the research inclusion criteria. The research instrument was a demographic questionnaire, the general health questionnaire (GHQ-28), and the health survey questionnaire of Weir and Sherburne SF-36. To analyze the data, the descriptive statistics of dispersion and central indices (the mean and the standard deviation), chart drawing, frequency tables, and binomial nonparametric tests were utilized using SPSS software, version 20. Results: According to the research results, 58% of the women with type 2 diabetes had mental disorders. The binomial test results indicated that the level of mental health in women with type 2 diabetes was significantly lower than the average level (p = 0.001). The results also showed that 6% of the women with type 2 diabetes had severe physical symptoms. The score was 9% for anxiety, 2% for the social function, and 1% for depression. In addition, the mean of the life quality components was 57.30 for physical functioning with the standard deviation of 26.39, it was 57.58 for the physical role with the standard deviation of 39.58, it was 57.54 for emotional role playing with the standard deviation of 42.02, it was 56 for vitality with the standard deviation of 23.98, it was 60.29 for mental health with the standard deviation of 23.47, it was 63.97 for the social function with the standard deviation of 23.16, it was 56.1l for the physical pain with the standard deviation of 25.58, and it was 16/53 for general health with the standard deviation of 96/13. Conclusion: Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects patients' psychological health. Hence, it is recommended that the status of the patients' psychological health be considered in diabetes treatment programs.
- Subjects
TABRIZ (Iran); TYPE 2 diabetes; QUALITY of life; MENTAL health; GENERAL Health Questionnaire; STANDARD deviations
- Publication
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences / Progress in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, 2018, p164
- ISSN
1735-8639
- Publication type
Article