@article{Totesora_Ramos-Rivera_Villegas-Florencio_Reyes-Sia_2019, title={Association of Diabetes-related Emotional Distress with Diabetes Self-care and Glycemic Control among Adult Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at a Tertiary Hospital in Manila, Philippines}, volume={34}, url={https://asean-endocrinejournal.org/index.php/JAFES/article/view/532}, DOI={10.15605/jafes.034.02.10}, abstractNote={<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Objective.</strong> The study aims to determine the association of diabetes-related emotional distress with reported diabetes selfcare, and glycemic control of adult Filipinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus at The Medical City using 2 psychometric tests.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Methodology.</strong> This is a cross-sectional study conducted among 94 Filipinos diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus, who answered 2 validated English questionnaires: Problem areas in diabetes (PAID-20) and Diabetes self-management questionnaire (DSMQ) that screen for diabetes-related emotional distress and diabetes reported self-care, respectively. Data were encoded and analyzed using Stata SE v.13.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Results.</strong> 42.6% of Filipinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus had emotional distress showing moderate to severe distress in factor 1 (diabetes-related emotional distress) and factor 3 (food related problems). 51.1% had suboptimal self-care, poorly scoring in areas of health-care use and dietary control. Majority of those who had diabetes-related distress and poor self-care where young, pre-obese and had diabetes duration of ±5 years. There was no significant association between diabetes-related emotional distress with diabetes self-care and emotional distress with glycated hemoglobin, but majority of those who had diabetes distress had higher glycated hemoglobin. There was significant association between diabetes self-care and glycemic outcomes (<em>p</em>=0.006) with relative risk of 1.51 (95% CI 1.10-2.07). There was linear inverse weak correlation between all subdomains of DSMQ with glycated hemoglobin except Dietary Control.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Conclusion.</strong> Diabetes-related emotional distress and sub-optimal self-care are prevalent among Filipinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Those who had poor self-care were 1.5 times more likely to have poor glycemic outcomes.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the ASEAN Federation of Endocrine Societies}, author={Totesora, Darwin and Ramos-Rivera, Marie Isobelle and Villegas-Florencio, Mary Queen and Reyes-Sia, Pia Natalya}, year={2019}, month={Nov.}, pages={189–196} }