2025, Vol. 7, Issue 1, Part C

author(s)
Poulami Mondal

abstract
A descriptive study was conducted on distress and its associated factors, coping strategies among diabetes mellitus patients attending medicine OPD, Bankura Sammilani Medical College and Hospital, Bankura, West Bengal with the objectives to assess distress among diabetes mellitus patients, to identify the associated factors causing distress, to ascertain coping strategies adopted by the diabetes mellitus patient and to find out the association between distress, coping strategies with their selected demographic variables. 96 diabetes mellitus patients were selected by non probability consecutive sampling technique. Semi structured demographic proforma was used to collect demographic characteristics. Standardized Diabetes Distress Screening Scale 17 was used to assess level of diabetes distress. Structured interview schedule and record analysis proforma was used to collect data regarding associated factors of diabetes distress and Standardized Brief COPE Scale was used for measuring adopted coping strategies. The study results depicted that 1.04% of diabetes mellitus patients had high diabetes distress followed by 37.50% had moderate distress, 61.46% had little distress, most 92.71% diabetes distress was due to regular use of oral hypoglycemic drug, majority 70.83% diabetes distress was due to having financial problem for diabetes management. About 16.67% of diabetes mellitus patients were having poor adopted coping strategies followed by 65.62% moderate and only 17.71% good. Diabetes distress and adopted coping strategies were significantly associated with gender, type of family, socio-economic class at 0.05 level of significance. The scope of generalization of findings were limited to present study population and study has implicated on nursing practice, education and research.