Assessing Quality of Life among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus,
Hypertension or Both Diseases in Al-Najaf Province /Iraq
الباحث الأول:
Ali shlash abd alhamza al Ibrahimy
الباحثين الآخرين:
Haydar F.Al-Tukmagi
المجلة:
Iraqi Journal of Pharmaceutical Scienses
تاريخ النشر:
None
مختصر البحث:
Abstract
With growing prevalence, diabetes mellitus will be possibly the most principal cause for morbidity
and mortality in next years. The predominance of diabetes mellitus has been increased over the last
decades, where the…
Abstract
With growing prevalence, diabetes mellitus will be possibly the most principal cause for morbidity
and mortality in next years. The predominance of diabetes mellitus has been increased over the last
decades, where the occurrence of disease is anticipated to increase to 592 million at 2035. Essential
hypertension is chronic non-communicable disease which considered the major risk factor for many
diseases. The world health organization estimates that the hypertensive patients will reach 1 billion or more
at year 2025. The purpose of insertion of quality of life as indicator for health outcome is due to sensitivity
of this measure for patients’ evaluations of their health status after taken treatment and its health outcome.
This study is a cross-sectional survey. The total number of participants in this study was 775 individuals
which divided into four groups: healthy control group, patients with diabetes mellitus only, hypertension
only and patients with both diabetes mellitus and hypertension. The questionnaire used to assess quality of
life is Arabic version of (WHOQOL- BRIEF). The mean scores of the four domains of QOL instrument for
diabetic, hypertensive and diabetic hypertensive patients were statistically significant lower than
corresponding domains of control group. In conclusion, one chronic disease affects quality of life and
combination of two chronic diseases affect quality of life to greater extent.
