Relationships between Quality of Life, Anxiety, Depression and Diabetes

A chronic disease such as diabetes significantly affects the life of the individual and their family. It lowers quality of life, results in loss of physical strength and sense of safety, which in turn leads to a feeling of uselessness and the development of anxiety and depression. Diabetic patients with symptoms of depression have lower quality of life than patients with diabetes without depression. Lack of acceptance of a chronic disease such as diabetes also significantly reduces patient quality of life. Increased awareness and monitoring of cases of depression are needed in different areas of diabetes care, because among patients with diabetes who suffer from depression, neuropathy, retinopathy, pain, worse general health, and lack of social support occur more often than in patients with diabetes without depression. The patient’s psychological well-being affects almost all aspects of therapeutic and nursing interventions.