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- Title
Hastanemiz İç Hastalıkları Kliniğine Başvuran Diyabetik Hastaların Sosyokültürel Durum ve Tedavi Sürecinin SF-36 Sağlık Ölçeğiyle Değerlendirilmesi.
- Authors
ERGİN, Ercan; AKIN, Seydahmet; GÖKTAŞLAR, Zeynep; TEKÇE, Mustafa; ALİUSTAOĞLU, Mehmet
- Abstract
Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the compliance to treatment and quality of life of the diabetic patients admitted to our hospital using SF-36 health survey. Methods: We evaluated the compliance to therapy and sociocultural factors of a total of 133 type 2 diabetic patients whom were admitted and treated in our internal medicine department. Of 133 patients, 41.4% of them were male (n=55) and 58.6% of them were female (n=78). Classification regarding age showed that 29% of patients were between 46-55 years of age, whereas 53.4% of them were over 56. Results: Our records indicate that 38.2% (n=50) of the patients were illiterate. Patients that graduated from primary school or from the university were 49.6% (n=65) and 3.6% (n=5); respectively. Of the patients that participated in our study, 48.8% (n=65) were diagnosed with diabetes 5 years ago and 24% (n=36) of them were diagnosed 11 or more years ago. Treatment modalities included oral diabetics (OADs) alone (48%; n=65), insulin alone (27%; n=36) or insulin and OAD both (25%; n=23). Patients with a diabetic age younger than 5 years had better quality of life scores when compared to patients with 6 years or older diabetes (p=0.001). Similarly, patients with graduated from primary school or higher education had better quality of life score than illiterate patients (p=0.02). The same association was not observed in comparison of patients graduated from primary school or lower and the patients with high school graduation or higher (p=0.98). Treatment modalities had similar effect on quality of life (p=0.13). There were no association between quality of life and the institution treating the patients (p>0.05). Conclusion: As the diabetic patient gets older, quality of life deteriorates. Moreover, illiterate diabetic patients have worse quality of life scores than literate patients. However, there is no statistically significant difference between patients that graduated from primary school and patients with higher education in terms of health survey scores. Treatment modality was not found associated with quality of life.
- Publication
Journal of Kartal Training & Research Hospital / Kartal Egitim ve Arastirma Hastanesi Tip Dergisi, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 2, p133
- ISSN
1302-485X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5505/jkartaltr.2014.47450