Association of Self-Care Behaviors and Quality of Life among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Chaldoran County, Iran

Self-care of diabetes is an essential part for controlling the disease and improvement of quality of life in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Tis study aimed to analyze the associated factors of quality of life in patients with T2DM in order to design effective interventions.
Methods: Tis cross-sectional study was conducted on 120 T2DM patients referred to health centers of Chaldoran, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. Te quality of life’s questionnaires from World Health Organization and the self-care behaviors’ questionnaires were used for data collection.
Results: Te mean age of patients was 46.30% and 53.30% of them were male. Among demographic variables, gender (P=0.002),
age groups (P=0.007), and household monthly income (P=0.009) were signifcantly associated with total quality of life. Also, selfcare nutrition (odds ratio [OR], 1.47; P=0.001), self-management of blood glucose control (OR, 1.29; P=0.002), and self-medication behavior (OR, 1.18; P=0.030) were identifed as factors signifcantly associated with quality of life.
Conclusion: Self-care behaviors were signifcantly associated with quality of life; among them, the greatest influence was observed in self-care nutrition behavior. According to the fndings of this study, appropriate interventions on self-care behaviors
about nutrition can improve the quality of life for T2DM patients