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Influencing Factors on Hypoglycemia Fear Behavior and Hypoglycemia Anxiety among Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Patients

  • Crisisonomy
  • Abbr : KRCEM
  • 2020, 16(2), pp.139-148
  • DOI : 10.14251/crisisonomy.2020.16.2.139
  • Publisher : Crisis and Emergency Management: Theory and Praxis
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy > Public Policy in general
  • Received : January 22, 2020
  • Accepted : February 18, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Mi-Kyoung Cho 1 Mi Young Kim 2

1충북대학교
2한양대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors affecting hypoglycemia fear behavior and hypoglycemia anxiety among type 1 diabetes mellitus patients. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 101 type 1 diabetes mellitus patients in South Korea via online survey. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 program. The mean age of the participants was 28.31±11.68 years and 61.4% of the participants experienced hypoglycemia more than four times per month. The scores for hypoglycemia fear behavior and hypoglycemia anxiety were 29.55±6.70 (range: 13-43) and 41.11±16.39 (range: 16-80), respectively. The explanatory power of the hypoglycemia fear behavior model including three variables of age, depression, and hypoglycemia anxiety was 19.0% (F=8.75, p<.001), while that of the hypoglycemia anxiety model including only two variables of depression and hypoglycemia fear behavior was 36.2% (F=29.03, p<.001). Considering that the most common factor affecting hypoglycemia anxiety was depression, efficient management of hypoglycemia is recommended to decrease the fear of hypoglycemia.

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