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Quality of life in type II diabetic patients referred to Sina Hospital, Hamadan

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S. Reza Borzou1,*, Mohsen Salavati2, Mahmood Safari1, Shahram Shahram Hadadinejad3, Mitra Zandieh4, Bita Torkaman5
1Instructor of Nursing, Research Center for Child and Maternity Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Hamadan, Iran.
2Instructor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Hamadan, Iran.
3Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Hamadan, Iran.
4Instructor of Paramedicine, School of Paramedicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Hamadan, Iran
5BSc of Nursing, Atieh Hospital of Hamadan, Hamadan, Iran.
*Corresponding Author: Instructor of Nursing, Research Center for Child and Maternity Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Hamadan, Iran. Email: edu1374@yahoo.com

Zahedan Journal of Research in Medical Sciences:Vol. 13, issue 4; e94003
Published online:Sep 28, 2011
Article type:Brief Report
Received:Jul 06, 2010
Accepted:Sep 14, 2011
How to Cite:Borzou SR, Salavati M, Safari M, Shahram Hadadinejad S, Zandieh M, et al. Quality of life in type II diabetic patients referred to Sina Hospital, Hamadan. Zahedan J Res Med Sci. 2011;13(4):e94003. doi:

Abstract

   Background:  The aim of this study was to determine the quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus type II.

Materials and Method: In this descriptive study, 165 type 2 diabetic patients were enrolled in the study consecutively. The SF-36 instrument was used to evaluate quality of life.

Results: Mean scores for each subscale were, function role (60.57), physical role (68.86), emotional role (69.59), energy / vitality (40.37), mental health (43.75), social functioning (66.5), body pain (50.96) and general health (43.63). There was not any statistically significant relationship between demographic data with quality of life.

Conclusion: Authorities can use those findings to make decisions in order to diagnose and prohibit problems related to the quality of life in those kinds of patients and also to make useful changes in quality of their lives.

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© 2011, Author(s). This open-access article is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which allows for unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

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