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Mahboubeh Safavi1, Nasrin Samadi, Mahmood Mahmoodi
1Department of Management of Education, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch, Tehran, Iran.
Objective:
To study the effects of the quality of life (QoL) improvement on their QoL and self-esteem.
Methods:
This was a random controlled clinical trial study on 123 type 2 diabetes patients admitted to the Diabetes Clinic in Imam Khomeini Hospital at Ardebil, Iran from April 2009 to June 2010. The 30-70 years old participants are afflicted with type 2 diabetes, and randomly divided into 2 groups (experimental group n=61, and control group n=62). The questionnaires were composed of sociodemographic status, Farrel & Grant, and Rosenberg's self-esteem questionnaires and the quality of life (QoL) improvement plan was codified to educate and evaluate them. A p<0.05 was considered significant.
Results:
Our study showed that subjects in the experimental group had low self-esteem (13%) before QOL training, and they had moderate self-esteem after the intervention (39%), however, the control group had moderate self-esteem (62.5%) in the pre-test, and changed to low self-esteem (12.9%) in the post-test, and there was significant difference in the previous and next intervention (p<0.05).
Conclusion:
The QoL improvement had positive effects on diabetic's self-esteem, and QOL as improved may help to reduce the side effects of type 2 diabetes process.
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