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- Title
The impact of employment and the level of personal education on HbA<sub>1c</sub> concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Authors
Kurowska, Maria; Tarach, Jerzy S.; Malicka, Joanna; Dąbrowska, Anna
- Abstract
Background. Level of education, changes in professional status or continuing to work can have a positive or negative influence on diabetes treatment results. The aim of the study was to establish the impact of the level of education and paid work on the metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Material and methods. 140 (60 male, 80 female) persons aged 37-75 (mean 59.7 ± 8.9) years. The subjects were grouped according to their level of education: group 1 (higher) included 22 pts, group 2 (secondary) - 80, group 3 (primary) - 38 persons and according to their employment status: group A included 31 employed and group B - 109 unemployed persons. Method based on a survey designed by the authors of the study the patient's level of education, employment status, age, BMI, disease duration and HbA1c were considered. Results. Group 1, 2 and 3 did not differ significantly in age and BMI. The highest percentage of HbA1c and the shortest disease duration were found in the group with higher education. The percentage of HbA1c in the whole group with higher education was statistically significantly higher than in the whole group with secondary education, but it did not differ significantly compared to the group with primary education. Professionally active patients had the lowest mean age and the shortest diabetes duration. The mean percentage of HbA1c did not differ significantly between the employed and unemployed groups. Conclusions. Higher and primary education in patients with type 2 diabetes were linked with worse metabolic control of diabetes. Professional activity had no impact on the patients' metabolic control.
- Subjects
TYPE 2 diabetes; SECONDARY education; PRIMARY education; EMPLOYMENT of diabetics; METABOLIC regulation; TREATMENT of diabetes; UNEMPLOYED people; CLINICAL medicine research
- Publication
Experimental & Clinical Diabetology / Diabetologia Doswiadczalna i Kliniczna, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 2, p86
- ISSN
1643-3165
- Publication type
Article