Associations of foot ulceration with quality of life and psychosocial determinants among patients with diabetes; a case-control study

Alosaimi, Fahad D.; Labani, Reem; Almasoud, Nouf; Alhelali, Nora; Althawadi, Lamya; AlJahani, Dhaherah Mani

doi:10.1186/s13047-019-0367-5

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research

Table 5 Correlations of quality of life with other psychosocial examination results and comorbidities of 209 Saudi diabetic patients by diabetic foot (DF) ulcer status

From: Associations of foot ulceration with quality of life and psychosocial determinants among patients with diabetes; a case-control study

	Physical health	Psychological	Social relationships	Environment	Overall	Total (all domains)
DM with DF
Anxiety; HAD anxiety	− 0.381**	− 0.363*	− 0.104	− 0.396**	− 0.488**	− 0.494**
Depression; HAD depression	− 0.565**	− 0.512**	− 0.212	− 0.453**	− 0.552**	− 0.624**
Somatic symptoms; PHQ-15	−0.353*	− 0.179	− 0.109	− 0.321*	−0.197	− 0.401**
Self-management; SDSCA
Diet	−0.133	0.243	0.070	0.049	0.441**	0.065
Exercise	0.132	−0.001	0.156	0.192	0.313*	0.190
Blood sugar testing	−0.159	− 0.109	− 0.095	0.118	− 0.083	− 0.085
Foot care	0.155	0.106	−0.100	0.129	0.102	0.203
Total	−0.010	0.139	−0.021	0.189	0.334*	0.161
Number of comorbid diseases	0.096	0.047	−0.039	− 0.065	− 0.020	− 0.018
DM without DF
Anxiety; HAD anxiety	−0.562**	− 0.547**	− 0.350**	−0.362**	− 0.365**	−0.587**
Depression; HAD depression	−0.521**	−0.488**	− 0.411**	−0.385**	− 0.341**	−0.574**
Somatic symptoms; PHQ-15	−0.654**	−0.462**	− 0.324**	−0.368**	− 0.352**	−0.582**
Self-management; SDSCA
Diet	0.078	0.127	0.052	0.156*	0.084	0.108
Exercise	0.226**	0.005	−0.043	0.073	0.034	0.109
Blood sugar testing	−0.087	−0.049	0.101	−0.007	− 0.033	−0.064
Foot care	0.006	0.138	0.146	0.144	0.109	0.127
Total	0.036	0.080	0.059	0.111	0.057	0.068
Number of comorbid diseases	−.411**	−0.149	−0.120	−0.106	−0.086	− 0.253**
Total
Anxiety; HAD anxiety	−0.525**	−0.509**	− 0.293**	−0.368**	− 0.387**	−0.559**
Depression; HAD depression	−0.534**	−0.491**	− 0.376**	−0.397**	− 0.382**	−0.582**
Somatic symptoms; PHQ-15	−0.575**	−0.396**	− 0.274**	−0.358**	− 0.319**	−0.532**
Self-management; SDSCA
Diet	0.016	0.135	0.038	0.127	0.148*	0.084
Exercise	0.212**	0.009	0.006	0.094	0.092	0.137*
Blood sugar testing	−0.118	−0.065	0.050	0.024	−0.046	−0.073
Foot care	−0.002	0.099	0.085	0.136	0.087	0.111
Total	0.010	0.073	0.048	0.140*	0.095	0.079
Number of comorbid diseases	−.300**	−0.105	−0.106	− 0.092	−0.075	− 0.201**

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (*) or the 0.01 level (**). Abbreviations as listed in Table 3

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