FACTORS RELATED TO STRESS, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION OF TYPE 2 DIABETES PATIENTS FOR INSULIN INJECTION

Trịnh Quốc Việt Trần1,, Châu Lê2
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City
2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City hospital

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Background: Stress, anxiety, depression in the diabetic patients using insulin injections in Vietnam, so far there have not been many systematic studies. Therefore, we conducted the topic " factors related to stress, anxiety, and depression of type 2 diabetes patients for insulin injection". Objective: Determine the relationship between stress, anxiety, depression in patients with type 2 diabetes and related factors. Subjects and methods research: Cross-sectional descriptive analysis on 133 patients who visited the outpatient clinic at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital from April 2022 to September 2022. The research tool is the DASS -21 scale. Statistical analysis by T-test, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Pearson. Results: The rates of stress, anxiety and depression of patients according to the DASS-21 scale were 6.77%, 37.6%, and 10.52%. There is a positive and strong correlation between stress, anxiety and depression and this is statistically significant with the correlation coefficient r 0.75 and p < 0.001. There was a relationship between stress and: religion, medical expenses, frequency of blood sugar checks, duration of diabetes, number of insulin injections per day, knowledge of insulin pens, hypertension, blood sugar fasting, with p < 0.05. There is a relationship between anxiety and: age of the patient, knowledge of insulin pens, fasting blood sugar, p < 0.05. There is an association between depression with: medical expenses, frequency of blood glucose testing, duration of diabetes 2, number of insulin injections per day, knowledge of insulin pens, hypertension, fasting blood sugar, p < 0.05. Conclusion: There is a strong and positive correlation between stress, anxiety and depression. There are associations between stress, anxiety, depression with social factors, patient health information and patient's type 2 diabetes pathology factors.

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