The Impact of Diabetic Foot Ulcer on Health Related Quality Of Life and Employment among Diabetics Attending Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital, Davangere
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 11
Abstract
Background: Diabetic foot ulcer is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus. Diabetic foot dis-ease reduces quality of life. It is as-sociated with early retirement and reduced productivity. This research was conducted to study the health related quality of life among pa-tients with diabetic foot ulcer; and also to study the impact of diabetic foot ulcer on employment status. Materials and Methods: This was a hospital based cross-sectional study. This study was conducted among 80 patients with diabetic foot ulcer attending the outpatient department of tertiary care teaching hospital Davangere. Results: Among 80 patients with diabetic foot ulcer, 79% had poor environmental domain composite score, 46% of the participants had poor physical and 48% had poor social health composite score. 38% study participants were not current-ly working. 15% had changed the job /wok they did because of their diabetic foot ulcer. Conclusions: Majority of patients with diabetic foot ulcer had poor health related quality of life and al-most one-thirds of them were un-employed
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Lekha Tejaswi Y, Navinkumar Angadi
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