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Profiling the mental health of diabetic patients: a cross-sectional survey of Zimbabwean patients
| العنوان: | Profiling the mental health of diabetic patients: a cross-sectional survey of Zimbabwean patients |
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| المؤلفون: | Alima M. Nyoni, Matthew Chiwaridzo, Catherine Tadyanemhandu, James January, Jermaine M. Dambi |
| المصدر: | BMC Research Notes, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | BMC, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Biology (General) LCC:Science (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Diabetes, Mental health, Social support, Quality of life, Zimbabwe, Medicine, Biology (General), QH301-705.5, Science (General), Q1-390 |
| الوصف: | Abstract Objective The burden of diabetes mellitus has exponentially increased in low resource settings. Patients with diabetes are more likely to exhibit poor mental health which negatively affects treatment outcomes. However, patients with high levels of social support (SS) are likely to report optimal mental health. We sought to determine how SS affects the report of psychiatric morbidity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in 108 diabetic patients in Harare, Zimbabwe. Results The average age of participants was 54.1 (SD 18.6) years. Most of the participants were; females (69.4%), married (51.9%), and were of low level of income (43.5%). 37.1% of the participants exhibited signs of psychiatric morbidity [mean Shona Symptoms Questionnaire score—6.7 (SD 3.2)]. Further, patients also reported lower HRQoL [mean EQ-5D-VAS score—64.1 (SD 15.3)] and high levels of SS [mean Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support score—43.7 (SD 11.5)]. Patients who received greater amount of SS had optimal mental health. Being female, unmarried, lower education attainment, having more comorbid conditions, being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and having been diagnosed of diabetes for a longer duration were associated with poorer mental health. It is important to develop context-specific interventions to improve diabetic patients’ mental health. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1756-0500 40864901 |
| Relation: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-018-3881-9; https://doaj.org/toc/1756-0500 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13104-018-3881-9 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/6c40864901ff489d93812abf5eb1314d |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.6c40864901ff489d93812abf5eb1314d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 17560500 40864901 |
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| DOI: | 10.1186/s13104-018-3881-9 |