Health behavior among patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus as reported from a regional diabetic outpatient department.
The cost of management of diabetes mellitus in Poland, which has become a very common disease recently, is estimated at over 1 milliard zloty a year. Therefore, it is necessary to increase the effectiveness of prevention and treatment of DM and its complications both by using improved methods and the promotion of positive health behaviours such as physical activity, rational diet, and reduction of harmful ones such as smoking, in diabetic patients. The aim of the study was to assess positive and negative health behaviours and the presence of diabetes mellitus complications in type 1 and 2 DM patients of provincial diabetic outpatient department. The study included 53 DM patients who reported to diabetic outpatient department in Biala Podlaska. The participants filled in a questionnaire consisting of some questions applying to the type of DM and a way of treatment, frequency of plasma glucose measurement, medical check-ups, DM complications, coexistent diseases, family history of DM and health behaviours (physical activity, appropriate diet, smoking etc.). The results allowed to draw the following conclusions: 1. the majority of diabetic patients of the studied population lead a fairly healthy life-style: they are physically active, use a suitable diabetic diet, do not smoke, regularly control weight, plasma glucose concentration and blood pressure, declare systematical ophthalmologist control and they take special care about their feet; 2. type 1 diabetic patients are more careful about DM management than type 2 diabetic subjects.
Opalińska
Edyta
E
Interfaculty Chair and Department of Public Health, Medical University of Lublin.
Strzemecka
Joanna
J
Latalski
Maciej
M
Goniewicz
Mariusz
M
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires