Influence of Comfort Care on the Quality of Life of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mel itus
Cai Yanan
Abstract：Objective:To explore influence of comfort care on the quality of life of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus .Methods:A to-tal of 120 patients with type 2 diabetes were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group with 60 cases in each group.The control group received routine health education and routine nursing care of diabetes ,while the observation group received the comfort nursing care on the basis of routine education and routine nursing care .After the intervention ,two groups′the quality of life was an-alyzed by the health survey questionnaires (SF-36)and the patients′life skills were assessed by the ability of daily living scale (ADL). The self efficacy scale ( DSES) was used to evaluate the effects of the change of behaviors and the patients ′psychological state was evalua-ted by self-rating depression scale(SDS)and self-rating anxiety scale(SAS).Results:After intervention,two groups′quality of life was significantly better than before intervention,and the observation group was significantly better than that in the control group (P<0.05). The observation group′s DSES total scores and 5 dimensions scores were significantly higher than those of the control group (P<0.05),as well as SDS and SAS scores were significantly lower than those in control group (P<0.05).Conclusion:Comfort care can effectively im-prove the behavior of patients with type 2 diabetic foot ,improve the patient's negative mood ,improve the patient's daily life ability ,and im-prove the quality of life of patients with important clinical significance .
Keywords：Comfort careType 2 diabetes mellitusQuality of lifePsychological stateDiabetic foot
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 13-15 )