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Assessment of quality of life in type II diabetic patients using the modified diabetes quality of life (MDQoL)-17 questionnaire

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1.	Title	Title of document	Assessment of quality of life in type II diabetic patients using the modified diabetes quality of life (MDQoL)-17 questionnaire
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Vivek Bhanubhai Prajapati; Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Department of Pharmacy Practice; India
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Raushan Blake; Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Department of Pharmacy Practice; India
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Leelavathi Dinesh Acharya; Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Department of Pharmacy Practice; India
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Shubha Seshadri; Manipal Academy of Higher Education; Kasturba Medical College; Department of General Medicine; India
3.	Subject	Discipline(s)
3.	Subject	Keyword(s)	Quality of Life; Diabetes complications/prevention and control; Diabetes Mellitus; Surveys and Questionnaires/utilization
4.	Description	Abstract	Diabetic complications, comorbidities, and cost of treatment affect the quality of life (QoL) of an individual. The QoL assessment is considered an important measure of outcome in chronic disease management. The objective of our study was to assess the quality of life in Type II diabetes mellitus patients with and without complications using the modified diabetes quality of life (MDQoL)-17. A prospective descriptive study was conducted over 6 months, after taking ethical committee approval. As per the inclusion criteria from medicine wards of tertiary care hospital, 250 patients were selected. Demographic characteristics were documented in the data collection form and the patients were administered with the MDQoL questionnaire in different languages. The data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 20. Majority of the patients were male (64.4%). The average age of the study population was 60.34±12.04 years. Most of the patients had a diabetes history of more than 10 years and HbA1c >; 8%. The average QoL score was 65.47±15.07. Majority of the diabetic patients had the QoL score between 70 and 50. Patients without complication had a better QoL. As the number of complications increased, there was a decrease in the QoL. The presence of comorbidity also decreased the QoL. There was a statistically significant correlation with various parameters such as age, duration of diabetes history, HbA1c, number of complications and type of complication verses QoL of diabetic patients (p<0.05). The overall QoL in diabetic patients is reduced. Thus, proper management and strict glycemic control is necessary to prevent progression and occurrence of complications to maintain a better QoL in diabetes patients.
5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas
6.	Contributor	Sponsor(s)
7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2017-01-01
8.	Type	Status & genre	Peer-reviewed Article
8.	Type	Type
9.	Format	File format	PDF
10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://www.revistas.usp.br/bjps/article/view/144067
10.	Identifier	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s2175-97902017000417144
11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Impresso); Vol 53, No 4 (2017)
12.	Language	English=en	en
13.	Relation	Supp. Files
14.	Coverage	Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.)
15.	Rights	Copyright and permissions	Copyright (c) 2018 Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (Impresso) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.