Lifestyle and Affective Emotions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, With or Without COVID-19 History

ABSTRACT

Background: The management of patients with T2DM is often complicated by psychological disorders including distress, depression, and anxiety, which might negatively impact diabetic patients' life quality and coping mechanisms with their disease. Patients with T2DM are more likely to experience severe or fatal COVID-19 infection. A cross-sectional study on patients with diabetes mellitus during the COVID-19 pandemic found that more than 90% of the participants had features of ongoing mental suffering. Objective(s) To compare lifestyle, positive & negative affective emotions in patients with T2DM, with or without COVID-19 history. Method(s) Using a cross-sectional design, we conducted a study in a primary care facility in Campeche, Mexico. Sixty participants with T2DM were included, thirty per group (COVID-19 history or not). IMEVID questionnaire designed to measure lifestyle in subjects with T2DM was applied. PANAS, a 20-item questionnaire assessed positive affects (10 items) and negative affects (10 items) experienced by the participants in the previous month. Result(s) The most frequent lifestyle was unhealthy with 68%. About both positive and negative affects, were classified as low with 68.3 and 66.7% respectively. Conclusion(s) In this study, no significant relation was observed between the lifestyle and the positive and negative affects of T2DM patients with and without a history of COVID-19. Although several risk factors identified for COVID-19 related mortality in people with T2DM cannot readily be modified, been able to identify unhealthy lifestyle in this cohort allow to intervene early to avoid worst outcomes in subjects infected with COVID-19 and they have uncontrolled T2DM. Keywords Diabetes mellitus, lifestyle, positive affects, negative affects, and COVID-19 Abbreviations T2DM Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, IMEVID Instrumento para medir el estilo de vida en diabeticos (Instrument to measure lifestyle in diabetics), PANAS Positive and Negative Affect Schedule Funding and Conflicts of Interest This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Copyright © 2023