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The objectives were to assess the level of anxiety among diabetes mellitus patients and to associate thelevel of anxiety with demographic variables among diabetes mellitus patients. The convenience samplingwas used to select 73 diabetes mellitus patients. The data collected tools were validated and reliability wasestablished. The data were collected by Hamilton anxiety rating scale. The collected data was Tabulatedand Analyzed. Descriptive and Inferential statistical method were used. The study showed that maximumdiabetes patients were above 60 years (34%); Majority of the patients were females (58%); Majority of thediabetes patients were moderate workers (37%); Majority of the patients were married (86%); Majority ofthe diabetes patients were duration of diabetes 1-3 years (48%); Majority of the diabetes patients not worriedabout health condition; But (48%) of the patients says that they worried about complication (43%). The studyshowed that 48% of diabetes patients have mild anxiety, 36% of diabetes patients have mild to moderateanxiety 16% of diabetes patients have moderate to severe anxiety. It showed that there is no significantassociation between level of anxiety among diabetes patients with selected demographic variables likeage (?2=5.635), gender (?2=2.105), occupation (?2=3.969), marital status (?2=5.671), duration of diabetes(?2=0.263). There is significant association between level of anxiety among diabetes mellitus patients withselected demographic variables like Are you worried about the health condition (?2=8.68). |
