Health related Quality of life Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension and Both A cross-sectional study in a Tertiary Healthcare Centre, Kolkata

Abstract

Introduction    Diabetes and hypertension are two major non communicable diseases which influenced daily life of individual both physically and mentally.

Objectives   The objectives were to assess the socio-demographic profile & HRQol of the study participants and their general health condition  as per their perception.

Materials and methods The  descriptive cross –sectional study conducted on adult out patient department of Medicine in Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata from 11^th March2024 to 7^th April 2024 with help of predesigned pretested semi-structured schedule by face to face interview. Data compilation and analysis were done by Microsoft Office excel and IBM SPSS version2019.

Results - From the present study it was seen that among 113 participants, 27.4% were between 50–59 years of age, 53.1% were female, 52.2% were from rural areas and 52.2% were Hindu. 45.1% of the participants belonged to lower socio economic class. 45.1% had addiction history, 62.8% had hypertension, 57.5% had diabetes while 92.2% adhered to medication. 60.2% of the study participants reported being "limited a little" in moderate physical activities due to physical health, 31% felt calm and peaceful "a good bit of the time", 44.2% indicated that emotional problems interfered with their social activities "some of the time". 27.4% participants perceived pain moderately impacted their daily work while 16.8% perceived their general health was poor. PCS-12 scores were 44.87 ±11.27 and MCS-12 score 46.76±10.21 among study participants. Among older study participants (>50yrs) had significantly lower PCS score (t-3.268,p-0.001) than younger one and longer duration (≥10yrs) of morbidities had also significantly lower PCS (t-5.205,p-0.01) & MCS score (t-3.441,p-0.01) than those who had less duration of morbidities.

Conclusion.  From this study it is concluded that older age group and longer duration of morbidities significantly impacted HRQoL.