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Trastornos psicológicos frecuentes en pacientes diabéticos de la fundación DONUM. Cuenca, 2017
(2018) Guairacaja Balbuca, Valeria Alexandra; Jara Chamba, Fabiola Lucía; Rodríguez Sánchez, Dolores Amparito; Cabrera Cárdenas, Carmen Lucía
Background: Diabetics tend to develop mental diseases, most frequent are anxiety, depression and stress. Those ones affect life quality and favor the grown of comorbidities associated with diabetes and also reduce life expectancy. Objective: To determinate frequent psychological disorders in diabetic patients from DONUM foundation in Cuenca city, 2017. Materials and methods: a transversal quantitative descriptive research was done using an aleatory and representative model of 174 persons, older than 30 years, with diabetes who were treated in DONUM foundation. In order to collect data at first, it was used an implement that valued social demographic and clinic variables. Second, it was applied Hamilton and Polonsky tests focused on anxiety, depression and stress. For nominal variables it was executed a data analysis through frequencies and percentages, and for quantitative variables the analysis was based in descriptive statistic. Results: from 174 examined patients, the 63.2% are women and the 36.8% are men, the 29.8% are between 61 and 70 years old, the 50% of people suffer severe anxiety, the 31.6% have light depression and the 46.6% suffer light stress. Conclusion: This research demonstrates that a considerable percentage of diabetics suffer from anxiety, depression and stress. Those are most common in women and affect people between 61 to 70 years old