Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Kufa, Najaf Governorate, Iraq.
Curr Diabetes Rev. 2023;19(9):e081420184858. doi: 10.2174/1573399816666200814133535.
The aim of this study is to assess the general health of diabetic type 2 patients by using SF-36 and also to find if there was an association between the scores of eight domains of this tool with disease-specific and demographic variables.
A cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the general health of patients with diabetes mellitus type 2. The participants of the present study were randomly selected from rural and urban areas. The diabetic patients visiting community pharmacies in these areas were invited to participate in this study after explaining the goal of the study. A self-reported questionnaire in the Arabic version of the medical outcome survey, the Short-Form (36-item), was conducted. However, uneducated patients were interviewed by trained pharmacists in the community pharmacies.
Two hundred confirmed DM patients were enrolled in this study with a mean age of (50.65 ± 8.914 years). 142 (71%) were male and the remaining 58 (29%) were female. The scores of all domains of SF-36 were significantly lower (p < 0.05) in female patients in comparison to that recorded in men. In addition, diabetic patients aged more than 50 years showed significantly lower scores of most domains of SF-36 (p < 0.05) except for emotional well-being (p > 0.05). The multivariate linear regression analysis demonstrated that gender, age, and treatment type were independent of health status based on the SF-36 survey, while emotional well-being, social functioning, and pain were exceptional.
The outcomes of this study showed a negative correlation between diabetes mellitus and the health status as measured by SF-36. Furthermore, excluding emotional well-being, social functioning, and pain domains, the other parameters of gender, age, and treatment type showed a significant correlation with health status.
本研究旨在使用 SF-36 评估 2 型糖尿病患者的总体健康状况，并探讨该工具的 8 个领域的评分与疾病特异性和人口统计学变量之间是否存在关联。
进行了一项横断面研究，以评估 2 型糖尿病患者的总体健康状况。本研究的参与者是从农村和城市地区随机选择的。邀请这些地区的社区药店的糖尿病患者参加这项研究，在解释研究目的后。进行了自我报告的问卷，即阿拉伯语版的医疗结果调查，简短形式（36 项）。然而，未受过教育的患者由社区药店的经过培训的药剂师进行访谈。
本研究共纳入 200 例确诊的 DM 患者，平均年龄为（50.65 ± 8.914 岁）。142 例（71%）为男性，其余 58 例（29%）为女性。与男性相比，女性患者 SF-36 的所有领域的评分均明显较低（p < 0.05）。此外，年龄超过 50 岁的糖尿病患者的 SF-36 大多数领域的评分明显较低（p < 0.05），除了情绪健康（p > 0.05）。多元线性回归分析表明，性别、年龄和治疗类型是独立于 SF-36 调查的健康状况的，而情绪健康、社会功能和疼痛则是例外。
本研究结果表明，糖尿病与 SF-36 测量的健康状况之间存在负相关。此外，除了情绪健康、社会功能和疼痛领域外，性别、年龄和治疗类型的其他参数与健康状况呈显著相关。
