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Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 38-42

Original Article

Consequence of Diabetes on Psychosocial Wellbeing and Quality of Life

Received Date:12 April 2019, Accepted Date:28 May 2019

Abstract

The persons living with Diabetes in the community does not realize their actual situation. The knowledge levels of persons with acute diabetes infuse insulin and in case of Type 2 diabetes patients is comparatively moderate in symptoms of common men and experts. Individuals with diabetes survive in a community that does not realize their ailment. The complete opinion that persons with severe diabetes infuse insulin and that Type 2 diabetes is minor persists prevalent within the common people and still with certain health care specialists. The Diabetes attitudes, wishes, and needs study, underlined that emotionalassistance in this unit of patients is lower than source and ineffective, causing in weak quality of life (QoL) and decreased common wellbeing. It is frequently tricky for much to agree that they must take medicines consistently during their life cycle, causing in weak medication adherence and diabetes personal administration. These psycho social problems can eventually develop into depressive or other psychological disorders that are associated with poor self-care behavior, poor metabolic outcomes, increased mortality, functional limitations, increased health-care cost, loss of productivity, and reduced QoL. To make the situation worse, only few people understand that diabetes is a condition that cannot be simply controlled by medications and that the existence of diabetes evidently modifies the lives of persons and their dependents. Consequently, during this article we will be reviewing the scientific evidence of the consequences of impaired psychological wellbeing and poor perception of quality of life on patients with diabetes. We will be enlightening the importance of social work and self-empowerment on this aspect of management, which is crucial for the improvement in the physical, psychological, and social wellbeing of every patient suffering from this disease.

Keywords: Diabetes; psychological; wellbeing; quality of life

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Copyright

© 2019 Srikanth & Rao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original author and source are credited. 

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka

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