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| Title |
Health-related quality of life in people with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: data from the Brazilian Type 1 Diabetes Study Group
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| Published in |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12955-015-0396-0 |
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| Authors |
Ana Carolina Contente Braga de Souza, João Soares Felício, Camila Cavalcante Koury, João Felício Abrahão Neto, Karem Barbosa Miléo, Flávia Marques Santos, Carlos Antonio Negrato, Ana Regina Bastos Motta, Denisson Dias Silva, Thaís Pontes Arbage, Carolina Tavares Carvalho, Hana Andrade de Rider Brito, Elizabeth Sumi Yamada, Franciane Trindade Cunha de Melo, Fabricio de Souza Resende, Juliana Cristina Cardoso Ferreira, Marilia Brito Gomes, On behalf of the Brazilian Type 1 Diabetes Study Group (BrazDiab1SG) |
| Abstract |
Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1 DM) affects the psychological and emotional well-being of patients and their families. This study aims to evaluate the health- related quality of life (HRQoL) of people with Type 1 DM in Brazil, a country of continental proportions, using the EuroQol questionnaires. This was a retrospective, cross-sectional, multicenter study performed by the Brazilian Type 1 Diabetes Study Group, by analyzing EuroQol scores from 3,005 participants with Type 1 DM, in 28 public clinics in Brazil. Data on demography, economical status, chronic complications, glycemic control and lipid profile were also collected. The assessment of HRQoL by the EuroQol showed that the average score assigned to general health in Brazil is markedly lower than those found in two other Type 1 DM population-based studies conducted in Europe (EQ-VAS from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Brazil were 80.8 ± 15.2, 75.1 ± 18.4 and 72.5 ± 22, respectively). Additionally, our data suggest that a better glycemic control could positively impact the HRQoL of people with Type 1 DM, implying that each 1 % reduction in glycated haemoglobin might lead to an increase of 1.5 points in general health status assessed by the EuroQol. This is a population-based study evaluating the HRQoL of people with Type 1 DM in Brazil. Our data indicate a worse quality of health of people with Type 1 DM in Brazil in comparison to Europe, and suggest that a better glycemic control could positively impact the HRQoL of these individuals. However, this study points to the existence of additional factors not yet evaluated that could be determinant in the HRQoL of these people. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 3 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 109 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 13 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 9% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 7% |
| Other | 25 | 23% |
| Unknown | 33 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 18% |
| Psychology | 6 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 13 | 12% |
| Unknown | 36 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
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#14,830,609
of 22,836,570 outputs
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#1,224
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#216,981
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#16
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