Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (DTSQ) of in non-ambulatory type 2 diabetic patients.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this work is to determine the diabetes treatment satisfaction in a group of hospitalized patients with type 2 diabetes.

METHODS: observational cross research. Patients over the age of 18 with diagnosed type 2 diabetes of at least one year until the present study were included. Those presenting pathologies attributed to diabetes were excluded. Patients should have responded to the DTSQ questionnaire upon admission. r Pearson regression, multivariate linear regression and U Mann-Whitney tests were analyzed.

RESULTS: A total of 102 patients were included with an average age of 63.1 years. Average value of the DTSQs was 14.5. A significant statistic correlation was observed between the score of the questionnaires and good diabetes control showed by the levels of HbAc1 and fasting blood glucose, among other parameters. Indeed there was no correlation between satisfaction and age and BMI. Women had lower satisfaction score than men.

CONCLUSIONS: levels of diabetes treatment satisfaction in the study population correlated well with diabetic status. That is, the lower diabetic compromise, the better satisfaction score. The degree of satisfaction in patients with type 2 diabetes was lower than the observed on patients with the same pathology but from primary levels of health care.