IMPLICAÇÕES DO DIABETES MELLITUS NA QUALIDADE DE VIDA DE INDIVÍDUOS, PARTICIPANTES DO PROGRAMA DE SAÚDE PARA O DIABÉTICO TIPO 2 DO HOSPITAL DO POLICIAL MILITAR (PSPD - HPM)

Abstract

It is about a study intended to evaluate the quality of life of diabetic militaries and his dependants (wives), to identify and associate the main risk factors that interfere on quality of life and make associations between quality of life and the main risk factors in diabetes mellitus 2 (DM2) patients through statistical significance and data mining. The study population was made out of 70 militaries and his wives, all patients with DM2 subscribed to the program entitled Attention, Prevention, Control and Treatment of DM2 of Military Police Hospital in Goiânia, GO, during the following period: from August to November 2008. Two closed questionnaires were applied, the first one referring to social-demographic variables, life style, clinical history, anthropometrical data, and the second one through a specific instrument of World Health Organization (WHO) to evaluate quality of life entitled WHOQOL bref. The most relevant variables and abrangência were: unbalanced diet with 78,6%, altered sugar rate with 91,5%, arterial hypertension with 54,2%, hypertension in the family with 71,4%. The complications referring to DM2 were foot injuries (25,7%), blindness (20,0%) and nephropathy (11,4%). The answers from survey individuals concerning the WHOQOL questionnaire bref detected that: 42 individuals (60,0%) considered their quality of life as good. However, 36 (51,4%) reported that they have negative feelings, sometimes. In relation to WHOQOL-bref domains, the ones of major prevalence were the social one followed by the environmental one. To execute the data mining method (Data Mininig, DM) it was utilized a tool known as Weka which allowed associations between the quality of life variables, risk factors and negative feelings. For the associations, attributes between themselves were strongly related, thus generating two associations. The first one - between quality of life and complications - and the second one - between quality of life, complications and negative feelings. Results demonstrated that the associations between quality of life, negative feelings and complications of DM have individual significance when related to the disease.