Influence of family support on psychology and life quality of patients with diabetic retinopathy

Abstract

Objective To investigate the influence of family support on the psychology and life quality of patients with diabetic retinopathy. Methods To survey the family support status, psychological status and quality of life by the questionnaire among 86 cases of diabetic retinopathy (DR) patients and to do the correlation analysis. Results Most of the dimension scores and total score of CLVQOL of the group of low score of family support (33 cases) were significantly lower than the group of high score of family support (53 cases). The score of somatization, compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, paranoia, psychosis and the SCL-90 total score of family support group with low scores was significantly higher than the family support group with high scores. Conclusions The family support can help maintain and improve the quality of life and the status of mental health of patients. Health care workers should pay more attentions to the guidance and education of the DR family members of patients to enhance the awareness of timely improved family support, to ensure the provision of high quality family support and promote the quality of life of patients. Key words: Family support; Diabetic retinopathy; Quality of life