Self Care Practices in Elderly with Diabetes: Association with Stress and Cost Analysis

Self care practices in Elderly with Diabetes: Association with Diabetic-related Distress and A review of Cost Analysis

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12617000504314

Enrollment

248

Registered

2017-04-06

Start date

2015-03-26

Completion date

2015-07-30

Last updated

2017-04-10

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Diabetes is highly prevalent among elderly. Elderly diabetic patients may suffer from many complications from diabetes and other chronic diseases. This may lead to distress and interfere with their self-care. The aim of the study was to assess self-care and level of distress among elderly patients with diabetes MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study involving 248 elderly Type II diabetes patients in primary care clinic. Convenient random sampling method was used. Data on socio-demographic and clinical characteristic (i.e. HbA1c, BMI) was obtained. The Diabetes Self Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) and Diabetes Distress Scale (DDS) were used to measure diabetes related distress and self-care respectively.

Interventions

To determine the diabetic self-care and distress level in elderly diabetic patient. Each participant was assessed once. The duration of data collection was started from26/03/2015 until 30/07/2015.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

60 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

60 years old and above with Type two Diabetes, diagnosed minimum of three months

Exclusion criteria

1. Mentally impaired 2. Illiterate 3. Having life-threatening condition

Outcome results