Quality of life and time since diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus among the elderly

Luciano Ramos De Lima,Marina Morato Stival,Cris Renata Grou Volpe,Silvana Schwerz Funghetto,Mani Indiana Funez,Walterlânia Silva Santos

doi:10.1590/1981-22562018021.170187

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Abstract Objectives: To evaluate the quality of life of the elderly with Diabetes Mellitus and to relate the time since diagnosis of diabetes with the quality of life of elderly persons receiving care at a basic health unit. Method: A cross-sectional quantitative study carried out in a Basic Health Unit with 196 elderly persons. For data collection, three instruments were used: one structured (sociodemographic and clinical variables) and the Whoqol-bref and Whoqol-old, with scores ranging from 0 to 100. Descriptive statistical analysis, Student’s T-test and Pearson’s correlation were performed. Results: Of the 196 diabetic patients, the majority were male (54.6%) with a mean age of 67.5 (±6.5) years. The mean time since diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus was 9.1 years. The domains of the Whoqol-bref with the highest scores, indicating better quality of life, were Social Relations and Psychological, while a worse quality of life was observed in Environment. The facets of the Whoqol-old with the best scores were: Intimacy and Past, Present and Future Activities, and the worst was Death and Dying. The domains associated with one another were Physical and Psychological, Physical and Social Relations, and Psychological and Environmental. The associated aspects were Past, Present and Future Activities and Social Participation. Elderly persons with more than ten years of Diabetes Mellitus had worse quality of life scores in Physical (p=0.001), Social relations (p=0.002), and in the Autonomy (p=0.0012), Social Participation (p=0.041) and Death and Dying (p=0.001) facets. Conclusion: The time of diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus was negatively associated with the quality of life of the elderly, with worse scores in most domains and facets of the Whoqol.

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DM is a progressive disease in which the state of health of affected individuals, especially the Diabetes Mellitus (DM ) is a chronic non- elderly, tends to deteriorate over time, especially transmissible metabolic disease of multifactorial after ten years of living with the disease, when the origin
The theme of quality of life (QoL) in elderly patients with DM has already been investigated in many studies[6,7,8,9,10,11,12], there will be a 69% increase in the number of but there is still a lack of research that compare the adults with DM in developing countries and 20% in developed countries between 2010 and 2030
In view of the above, the present study aimed to evaluate the quality of life of the elderly with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and to relate the time since the diagnosis of DM to the quality of life of elderly persons receiving care in a basic health unit of the

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DM is a progressive disease in which the state of health of affected individuals, especially the Diabetes Mellitus (DM ) is a chronic non- elderly, tends to deteriorate over time, especially transmissible metabolic disease of multifactorial after ten years of living with the disease, when the origin. It is characterized by the permanent elevation complications derived from poor glycemic control, of glycemic levels due to the absence or incapacity which may negatively affect their QoL, can appear[4,9,11]. By 2025, the expectation is that 350 million people will be affected by the disease, of whom 18.5 million will live in Brazil[1,2]

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