Factors associated with health related quality of life in persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus during coronavirus-19 pandemic in upper southern region
Abstract:
The purposes of this the relationship correlation research were to study the health quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes in the COVID-19 epidemic situation,to examine the relationship between selected factors, including body mass index, and blood sugar levels before breakfast. lifestyle changes,social support ,medication Adherence,health service and the health quality of life of people with type 2 diabetes in the COVID-19 epidemic situation. To compare the quality of life of health of people with type 2 diabetes in COVID-19 epidemic situation between self-examination groups and those who do not have their own blood sugar levels. And compare the quality of health in the health of people with type diabetes 2 In the the situation, the COVID-19 epidemic situation between groups that have never had a history of covid-19 infection and the group has a history of covid-19 infection.The sample comprised 235 type 2 diabetes adult patients from the outpatient deparment of secondary hospitals and above.by a multi-stage sampling strategy. The research instrument comprised patientsdemographic data. Disease-specific quality of life measures,lifestyle assessment scale,Social support assessment scale, medication Adherence assessment scale and Health service assessment scale. The reliabilities were .88, .95,.95,.97 and .88 respectively.Descriptive quantitative statistics, Pearson's correlation, and Independent t-test. The major findings were as follows: 1. The quality of life in persons with type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic, categorized by dimensions of quality of life, revealed that the dimension of diabetes control (x̄ = 63.01, SD = 8.33), the dimension of anxiety (x̄ = 21.02, SD = 2.57), the dimension of social burden (x̄ = 28.09, SD = 3.18), the dimension of sexual function (x̄ = 20.36, SD = 1.18), and the dimension of vitality (x̄ = 90.85, SD = 6.89) all indicated a high level of quality of life. 2. The quality of life in persons with type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a low positive correlation with lifestyle changes and medication adherence, statistically significant at the .05 level (r= 0.28, 0.28 respectively). Meanwhile, social support and access to health services have a moderate positive correlation, statistically significant at the .05 level (r=0.37, 0.35 respectively). Body mass index and fasting blood sugar levels do not correlate with the health-related quality of life of individuals with type 2 diabetes during the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. The average scores for the health-related quality of life in persons with type 2 diabetes who did self-monitoring blood sugar level (x̄ = 222.07, SD= 14.87) and persons with type 2 diabetes who did not do self-monitoring blood sugar (x̄ = 223.62, SD= 15.73) were not different. Meanwhile, the average scores for the health-related quality of life in persons with type 2 diabetes who had history infected with coronavirus disease -19 (x̄ = 221.86, SD= 14.64) and persons with type 2 diabetes who had not infected with coronavirus disease-19 (x̄ = 227.11, SD= 17.26) were not different