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Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes
Diabetes is known to compromise patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is important to understand the HRQoL of Kuwaiti nationals living with diabetes and identify factors that negatively affect it. This study included 1,182 Kuwaiti nationals with diabetes, aged 18–80 years. Patien...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10076667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37033039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085928 |
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author | Alowayesh, Maryam S. Aljunid, Syed Mohamed Aladsani, Afaf Alessa, Thamer Alattar, Abdulnabi Alroudhan, Dherar |
author_facet | Alowayesh, Maryam S. Aljunid, Syed Mohamed Aladsani, Afaf Alessa, Thamer Alattar, Abdulnabi Alroudhan, Dherar |
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description | Diabetes is known to compromise patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is important to understand the HRQoL of Kuwaiti nationals living with diabetes and identify factors that negatively affect it. This study included 1,182 Kuwaiti nationals with diabetes, aged 18–80 years. Patients' demographic and HRQoL information was collected using the EuroQol EQ-5D-5L instrument. Mean values for each EQ-5D subscale were worst for mobility (1.9) and pain/discomfort (1.8). Most patients reported having no problems in self-care (84.4%). Older adults were most likely to report severe problems with mobility (p < 0.001). Females were more likely to report severe problems with anxiety and depression than males (p < 0.006). The EQ visual analog scale (EQ VAS), which reports perceived overall health on a 0–100 scale, showed a mean of 74.7 (±19.6). Patients with comorbidities and/or complications perceived their health to be worse, with VAS scores significantly lower (p < 0.001). Other factors that negatively affected VAS scores were being female, obesity, insulin usage, and lower levels of education. In conclusion, patients with diabetes who have comorbidities and/or complications perceived their health to be worse. Further research is required to evaluate if current diabetes management interventions help improve patients' HRQoL. |
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spelling | pubmed-100766672023-04-07 Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes Alowayesh, Maryam S. Aljunid, Syed Mohamed Aladsani, Afaf Alessa, Thamer Alattar, Abdulnabi Alroudhan, Dherar Front Public Health Public Health Diabetes is known to compromise patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is important to understand the HRQoL of Kuwaiti nationals living with diabetes and identify factors that negatively affect it. This study included 1,182 Kuwaiti nationals with diabetes, aged 18–80 years. Patients' demographic and HRQoL information was collected using the EuroQol EQ-5D-5L instrument. Mean values for each EQ-5D subscale were worst for mobility (1.9) and pain/discomfort (1.8). Most patients reported having no problems in self-care (84.4%). Older adults were most likely to report severe problems with mobility (p < 0.001). Females were more likely to report severe problems with anxiety and depression than males (p < 0.006). The EQ visual analog scale (EQ VAS), which reports perceived overall health on a 0–100 scale, showed a mean of 74.7 (±19.6). Patients with comorbidities and/or complications perceived their health to be worse, with VAS scores significantly lower (p < 0.001). Other factors that negatively affected VAS scores were being female, obesity, insulin usage, and lower levels of education. In conclusion, patients with diabetes who have comorbidities and/or complications perceived their health to be worse. Further research is required to evaluate if current diabetes management interventions help improve patients' HRQoL. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10076667/ /pubmed/37033039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085928 Text en Copyright © 2023 Alowayesh, Aljunid, Aladsani, Alessa, Alattar and Alroudhan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Alowayesh, Maryam S. Aljunid, Syed Mohamed Aladsani, Afaf Alessa, Thamer Alattar, Abdulnabi Alroudhan, Dherar Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title | Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title_full | Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title_fullStr | Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title_full_unstemmed | Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title_short | Health-related quality of life of Kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
title_sort | health-related quality of life of kuwaiti adults living with diabetes |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10076667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37033039 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085928 |
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