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Volume 6, Issue 4 (Suppl)
J Nurs Care, an open access journal
ISSN: 2167-1168
Euro Nursing 2017
October 26-28, 2017
32
nd
EURO
NURSING AND MEDICARE SUMMIT
October 26-28, 2017 | Paris, France
The effect of the disease illness perception on the anxiety and depression symptoms in diabetics
Funda BUDAK
2
and
Ummuhan AKTURK
1
Inonu University, Turkey
Objectives
: This study; to determine the levels of anxiety and depression in diabetic patients (Type 1-2), and to compare
diabetic patients with and without anxiety and depression risk of disease perception.
Methods
: The descriptive study was conducted between June 2016 and September 2016 at the Malatya Turgut Ozal Medical
Center Hospital. Three forms were used as data collection tools. The sample of the study consisted of 200 patients. Data
from the study; Introductory Information Form, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Disease Perception Scale. Data were
analyzed using frequency distributions, Student’s t -test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation and chi-square tests.
Results
: In the study, the average age of the patients was 54.74 ± 11.5, 62.5% of them were women, 64.5% were in poor
condition, 87% were married, 43% were primary school graduates, 39% had other chronic diseases except diabetes, Diabetes
has experienced complications, 22.5% have diabetes mellitus for 11-20 years and 73.5% have enough knowledge about diabetes
mellitus. Of the patients, 32% had an anxiety subscale, and 49% had a supra-threshold score on the depression subscale. In
patients with anxiety risk, the understanding of the patient's understanding of the disease, personal control and treatment
control scores were lower than the anxiety non-risk patients, and the scores of emotional representation and psychological
attributions were higher; Personal control and duration (cyclic) scores of depressed patients with depression were found to be
lower than those without depression, and scores of emotional representations were higher.
Conclusions
: It is understood that 32% of the diabetic patients have anxiety subscale, 49% of them have suprised points in the
depression subscale and the disease perceptions of these patients are negative.
umhnygt@gmail.comFunda BUDAK et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:4(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168-C1-061