TITLE:
Health Related Quality of Life in Adult with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
AUTHORS:
Md. Motiur Rahman, Hafiza Sultana, Farkhanda Mah Jebin, Tanmoy Saha, Wahida Yasmeen, Foisal Mohammad Mosiul Alom, Syeda Tahmina Ferdous Jinia, Syed Ahmed, Laiak Ahammed
KEYWORDS:
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Health Related Quality of Life, Diabetes Mellitus
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Diabetes Mellitus,
Vol.12 No.4,
November
10,
2022
ABSTRACT: Introduction: The health related quality of life (HRQoL) has an important role in adults suffering from diabetes. Objective: To assess the health related quality of life in adult with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess diabetic patient’s HRQoL on 119 purposively selected type-2 DM patients (aged ≥ 18 years and duration of diabetes ≥ 1 year). Data were collected by face-to-face interview and by medical record review through a Bangle version of SF-36 semi-structured questionnaire and a checklist. Place and period of study: The study was conducted at outpatient department in Gopalganj 50 bedded diabetic hospital from 1st January, 2018 to 31st December 2018. Results: The mean age of the respondents was 52.34 (SD ± 10.19) years. Age group shows a significant difference associated with all domains of quality of life except role emotion (>0.05), gender shows the significant in social and pain domain (0.05) respectively co-morbidity shows the significant difference with all domains expect pain (>0.05). Physical functioning, emotional, pain and general health of the quality of life show the significant difference associated with use of insulin (Conclusion: The overall QoL of type-2 DM patients was poor and had lower score of health related quality of life.