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Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes
BACKGROUND: The data of the International Diabetes Federation show that about 463 million people have diabetes. Better understanding of psychosocial aspects of life with this disease has become one of healthcare priorities in this group of patients. The aim of this study was to assess the relationsh...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32689971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09241-z |
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author | Kobos, Ewa Szewczyk, Alicja Świątkowska, Teresa Kryczka, Tomasz Sienkiewicz, Zofia |
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description | BACKGROUND: The data of the International Diabetes Federation show that about 463 million people have diabetes. Better understanding of psychosocial aspects of life with this disease has become one of healthcare priorities in this group of patients. The aim of this study was to assess the relationships between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetic patients. METHODS: The study included 250 hospitalized patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes. The patients included in the study were those who had had diabetes for at least 1 year and received pharmacotherapy. Standardized Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA) and an analysis of patient test results including 10 indicators of blood glucose control were used for data collection. Correlation analysis, i.e. Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient (r, parametric method), was used for hypothesis verification. RESULTS: Less than one-fifth (16%) of the patients included in the study had higher loneliness index (based on the R-UCLA scale), and this loneliness index (total result) was significantly correlated with higher blood pressure. No significant correlations were demonstrated between loneliness and the other 9 indicators of blood glucose control. CONCLUSIONS: Systolic blood pressure was significantly correlated with loneliness in patients with diabetes. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings. |
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spelling | pubmed-73727782020-07-21 Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes Kobos, Ewa Szewczyk, Alicja Świątkowska, Teresa Kryczka, Tomasz Sienkiewicz, Zofia BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: The data of the International Diabetes Federation show that about 463 million people have diabetes. Better understanding of psychosocial aspects of life with this disease has become one of healthcare priorities in this group of patients. The aim of this study was to assess the relationships between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetic patients. METHODS: The study included 250 hospitalized patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes. The patients included in the study were those who had had diabetes for at least 1 year and received pharmacotherapy. Standardized Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (R-UCLA) and an analysis of patient test results including 10 indicators of blood glucose control were used for data collection. Correlation analysis, i.e. Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient (r, parametric method), was used for hypothesis verification. RESULTS: Less than one-fifth (16%) of the patients included in the study had higher loneliness index (based on the R-UCLA scale), and this loneliness index (total result) was significantly correlated with higher blood pressure. No significant correlations were demonstrated between loneliness and the other 9 indicators of blood glucose control. CONCLUSIONS: Systolic blood pressure was significantly correlated with loneliness in patients with diabetes. Further studies are needed to confirm these findings. BioMed Central 2020-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7372778/ /pubmed/32689971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09241-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kobos, Ewa Szewczyk, Alicja Świątkowska, Teresa Kryczka, Tomasz Sienkiewicz, Zofia Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title | Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title_full | Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title_fullStr | Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title_full_unstemmed | Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title_short | Relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
title_sort | relationship between loneliness and blood glucose control in diabetes |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32689971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09241-z |
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