Emotional Intelligence and Quality of Life in Elderly Diabetic Patients

Abstract Background: Coordination of various physical and mental aspects of individuals, including the ability to control difficult conditions and situations has an effect in the prevention and development of various diseases, such as diabetes, and the improvement of the quality of life. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the effect of emotional intelligence on the quality of life of elderly diabetic patients. Methods: The statistical population in this cross-sectional study consisted of elderly people referred to the health centers of Kermanshah province in western Iran, who were divided via available sampling into two groups with diabetes and without diabetes. Data gathering tools were a couple of LIPAD Quality of Life and Shrink Emotional Intelligence standard questionnaires. The Data was analysed using software SPSS, 23 th version. Results: The studied persons were divided into two groups of diabetic with 63 people (8.48%) and non-diabetic with 66 people (2.51%). Most of them were male and the mean age of the patients was 65/01 ± 6.08 years old and married. The quality of life score in diabetics and non-diabetics was respectively 51.9 and 50.37 with a standard deviation of 17.73 and 20.54. The mean total score of emotional intelligence in the elderly with diabetes was 99.42 with a standard deviation of 10.37 and non-diabetic subjects were 97.18 with a standard deviation of 18.49. Conclusion: There was no significant difference between the mean scores of quality of life (.652) and emotional intelligence (.421) in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals. But, the emotional intelligence has an effect on the quality of life of the elderly people..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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ResearchSquare.com - (2020) vom: 27. Apr. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moradi, Farideh [VerfasserIn]
Tourani, Sogan [VerfasserIn]
Ziapour, Arash [VerfasserIn]
Abbas, Jaffar [VerfasserIn]
hematti, Maryam [VerfasserIn]
Moghadam, Elham Jamshidi [VerfasserIn]
Aghili, Amin [VerfasserIn]
Soroush, Ali [VerfasserIn]

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10.21203/rs.2.18065/v1

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XRA033493901