Health related quality of life and treatment satisfaction in diabetes mellitus patients attending a tertiary care centre in the north eastern part of India

Abstract              Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness requiring continuous medical care and patient self-management education. The quality of life in diabetes is reduced and its daily treatment need, acute and chronic complications have great impact on physical, psychological and social well-being of diabetic patients. The study was conducted to find out the health related quality of life (HRQOL) using the WHO (FIVE) Well Being Questionnaire and different factors affecting it along with treatment satisfaction using the Modified Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (DTSQ) in the patients. Materials and methods: The study was an observational analytical study done in the department of General Medicine, RIMS Imphal Results:Out of 430 diabetes mellitus patients males and females were respectively 229 and 201. The mean age of the patients was 53.34 years with a standard deviation of 15.70 years. It was found that the health related quality of life deteriorates with increase in age and longer duration of diabetes is related to worse quality of life. Females have better quality of life. Surprisingly, BMI has no relation with the health related quality of life. Increase in both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, poor glycaemic control, dyslipidemia, renal impairment, diabetic retinopathy and increase in number of complications are found to have significant negative impact on the health related quality of life.

Key Words: Diabetes, Quality of life, treatment satisfaction.