Health Related Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes: Psychological and Socio-Demographical Determinants

Abstract

Background: Diabetes mellitus disease is the universal principal cause for decreased quality of life in adulthood. This study seeks to indicate the psychological and socio-demographical determinants of the health related quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus in Tetovo.Material and method: The research instrument used consists of socio-demographic questions and four tests: Cohen’s stress measurement questionnaire, Beck’s depression measurement questionnaire, Beck’s anxiety measurement questionnaire and the quality of life measurement questionnaire (WHOQOL-Breef ). The sample of the study consists of N=100, including patients with diabetes mellitus treated in Clinical Hospital in Tetovo.Results: Findings revealed that psychological variables (stress, depression and anxiety) indicates significant negative correlations with quality of life and its dimension. In terms of demographic variables, duration of disease is in significant correlation with QOL and psychological variables, type of duration is in significant correlation with QOL, age is in negative significant correlation with stress and QOL. There was no significant role at prediction of health related quality of life in terms of patient's age, gender, residence, employed, education and marital status. Conclusion: Demographic variables, such as: gender, age, employment, education and economic class are in significant relation with stress, depression, anxiety and the quality of life of patients with diabetes, while the type of disease and its duration are in that kind of relations only with the quality of life. Thus, it is important to emphasize the worth of tailored intervention for addressing these issues in therapeutic and rehabilitation agendas. Likewise, the identification and treatment of psycho-social correlates in these patients could be very important.

Keywords: diabetes mellitus, quality of life, stress, depression, anxiety

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/10-15-13

Publication date:May 31^st 2019