Depression related to adherence to nutritional treatment in patients with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Abstract

Depression is closely related to current diseases, one of them, Diabetes Mellitus (DM); likewise, misinformation leads the patient not to adhere to a nutritional treatment; In this article, two important variables will be studied for the patient, the health personnel and to grant a successful nutritional intervention. The objective of the article is to analyze the relationship between depression and adherence to nutritional treatment in patients with type 2 DM. A detailed investigation of scientific articles was carried out on Internet pages such as PubMed, Redalyc, Google Scholar, Scielo and Elsevier; collected from 2016 to 2021, with the variables anxiety, depression, adherence to nutritional treatment and type 2 diabetes mellitus. A moderate and significant inverse relationship was found between perceived social support and trait anxiety (rho=-.173**; p<0.05). In addition, a highly significant relationship was found between perceived social support and adherence to treatment (rho=,224**; p<0.05).; In addition, in the year 2020 by Rondón, J and Angelucci, L. it was verified that the proposed model obtained an adequate goodness of fit: Chi2 of 68.51; p < 0.05 GFI = 0.95; RMSEA = 0.08; AGFI = 0.91; PNFI = 0.47; and CFI = 0.74, in which no relationship was found between adherence and depression. However, the constructor of adherence to treatment showed validity problems, for which reason it was modified and a new model was proposed, obtaining better measures of goodness of fit. Thus, a negative relationship between the constructs was obtained, that is, the greater the adherence, the less depression. Mental health has been affected by stress, the relationship with others, time, tension, negative emotions, lack of progress or the appearance of communications, leading the patient to feel anxiety and depression; and with this, the prevalence of diseases has triggered fears about what is expected in the future, the treatment and the results in each patient.