Lifestyle and self-esteem in persons with diabetes in a suburban community
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51422/ren.v14i1.202Keywords:
Life Style, Self Concept, Diabetes Mellitus, Health Behavior, Adult, AgedAbstract
Introduction. Lifestyles and self-esteem affect health behaviors of people with Diabetes Mellitus type 2 (DM2) to maintain control.
Objective. To identify the relation between lifestyles and the self-esteem, in diabetics type 2.
Material and methods: Descriptive- transversal and Correlational study, in 81 persons from a suburban community in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Adults and seniors, men and women with DM2 who agreed to participate were included. Were applied: a) An instrument for measuring the lifestyle in diabetic (IMEVID) with 25 items that weights be favorable, unfavorable and favorable); b) self-esteem scale with 10 items (strongly agree to strongly disagree) weighted high, medium and low. The processing and analysis was SPSS version 20, descriptive and statistical association was obtained by Pearson correlation.
Results: The mean age was 57.9 years, and female predominance. High self-esteem was found in 62.9% and lifestyle 51.7% from unfavorable to favorable, were not associated statistically as in other studies.
Conclusions: It is necessary to promote favorable lifestyle, and although the variables were not associated, medium-high self-esteem is a strength to control the disease.