Research Article
Health-Related Quality of Life in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: An Analysis of the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Program
Author(s): Andrea OY Luk, Yuying Zhang, Gary TC Ko, Nicola Brown, Risa Ozaki, Peter CY Tong, Ronald CW Ma, C C Tsang, Y Cheung, Alice PS Kong, C C Chow, Harriet Chung, Maggie Lau, Marina Cheung, Rebecca Wong, Troels Wolthers, Greg Lyubomirsky, Wing-yee So and Juliana CN Chan, On behalf of the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Hong Kong Study GroupAndrea OY Luk, Yuying Zhang, Gary TC Ko, Nicola Brown, Risa Ozaki, Peter CY Tong, Ronald CW Ma, C C Tsang, Y Cheung, Alice PS Kong, C C Chow, Harriet Chung, Maggie Lau, Marina Cheung, Rebecca Wong, Troels Wolthers, Greg Lyubomirsky, Wing-yee So and Juliana CN Chan, On behalf of the Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Hong Kong Study Group
Objective: Diabetes is associated with impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) which predicts adverse clinical outcome. To examine clinical factors associated with HRQoL in a cross-sectional cohort of 14,826 Hong Kong Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes receiving outpatient care.
Methods: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes who underwent comprehensive assessment of risk factors and complications using the web-based Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Program also completed the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) questionnaire and visual analogue scale (VAS) for evaluation of HRQoL. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify clinical correlates with EQ-5D index and the association was expressed using β-coefficient whereby β>0 indicates positive correlation and β<0 indicates negative correlation.
Results: More patients reported problems .. View More»
