Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The aim of diabetes treatment is to keep blood glucose levels as near to normal as possible. Training in self management of diabetes forms an essential part of diabetes management. Treatment should be agreed on an individual basiss and adress medical psychosocial and lifestyle issues. But how much diabetes patients are satisfaied about their treatment?

Materials and Methods: Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction questionnaire (DTSQs) was used to measure satisfaction and adherence of patients to their treatment. The questionnaires were filled out anounymously. The first factor assesses treatment satisfaction and consists of six questions (Q1, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). These six questions ask about « satisfaction with current treatment », « flexibility », « convenience »,«understanding of diabetes », « recommend treatment for others », and « willingness to continue », respectively. The second factor consists of two questions (Q 2 and 3) wich assess the burden from hyper- and hypoglycemia, respectively.

Results: We submitted 48 patients with type 2 diabetes to the DTSQs questionnaire. The average age of our patients was 56 years. The sex ratio was 0.82. The mean total score of DTSQs (the sum of six questions=0-36) was 23.85, with the mean score of each question being 3.97. The mean scores of Q2(hyperglycemia) and Q3 (hypoglicemia) were 3.70 and 1.97 respectively.

Conclusion: A number of factors are associated with treatment satisfaction like macrovascular complications actual hypergycemia and specially diabetes education. Self-management education programmes should incorporate this factors to improove the well-bebing of diabetes patients.