Association of stress management behavior and diabetic self-care practice among diabetes type II patients in North Shoa Zone: a cross-sectional study

• Published in: BMC health services research 2023-07, Vol.23 (1), p.767-767, Article 767
• Main Authors: Eshete, Akine, Mohammed, Sadat, Deresse, Tilahun, Kifleyohans, Tewodros, Assefa, Yibeltal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Behavior; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Care and treatment; Coping; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data collection; Diabetes; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - therapy; Diabetic Self-care Practice; Diabetics; Ethiopia; Health Behavior; Health care; Health services; Hospitals; Humans; Logistic Models; Mental disorders; Methods; North Shoa Zone; Patients; Patients with type II diabetes; Problem solving; Public health; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Self Care; Self-care, Health; Social support; Stress; Stress management; Stress management behavior; Type 2 diabetes; Variables
• ISSN: 1472-6963; 1472-6963
• DOI: 10.1186/s12913-023-09752-6

The cornerstone of diabetes management is the self-care behavior of diabetics. However, many people with diabetes do not fully engage in these activities. Effective stress management behaviors have a positive impact on diabetes self-care. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-care behaviors in people with diabetes and stress coping behaviors in people with type II diabetes. A facility-based cross-sectional study was undertaken in the North Shoa zone from March 2 to 29, 2022. The study involved 432 types II diabetic patients who were chosen at random from eight public hospitals. Eight item stress coping techniques tools was used to measure stress management behavior. Data were entered into Epi Data V.3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 22. Data for continuous variables were reported as means and standard deviations and percentages for categorical variables. Descriptive statistic was used to summarize study variables. Binary logistic regression models were used to assess associations between sociodemographic variables, stress-coping behaviors, and self-care behaviors. Binary logistic regression model was used investigate the association between diabetic self-care behaviors and stress-coping behaviors. A p-value ≤ 0.05 and an OR with a 95% CI are considered statistically significant associations. the study showed that stress management behavior was observed in more than half of the patients (51.2; 95% CI; (46.5, 55.6). The study found that stress management behavior was associated with diabetic self-care practice (X2, 17.7; p