The Quality of Life of Women with Type 2 Diabetes: the Study of Self-Efficacy

Diabetes is the most common metabolic disease in humans and has several chronic complications such as sight, kidney, vascular and nervous disorders all of which effect the patient's quality of life. In this regard, self-efficacy as an important factor is the patients ability to personally control their disease. This study investigates the relationship between self-efficacy and quality of life diabetic women. This study is a cross-sectional study on 187 diabetic woman who referred to the Diabetes Research Center of Hamadan. The Simple Sampling method was used in this study and for data collection the quality of life questionnaire summarized by the World Health Organization and perceived self-efficacy questionnaire on disease were used. Data were analyzed by using statistical software SPSS-13. The mean years of suffering from diabetes in the participants was 9.86 with a standard deviation of 6.77 years and the mean quality of life score was 79.92 (total score = 130). There was a statistically significant correlation between occupation, years of suffering from the disease, education, and quality of life (P < 0.05). Moreover, a significant correlation was observed between self-efficacy and quality of life of patients (p < 0.05). The results of this study Showed a Significant correlation between self-efficacy and quality of life. In this regard, nurses and other health personnel can increasing the confidence of patients in the self-care behavior and consequently improve their quality of life by giving them appropriate training.