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Revathy K D
Asha C G
Ansa C J
India is known as the “Diabetic capital” of the world, due to the dramatic rising prevalence of diabetic patients. This study was undertaken to assess the demographic and clinical profile among patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus in a selected hospital, Thrissur. The research design adopted for this study is descriptive survey design. Thirty samples were selected by purposive sampling technique. The demographic and clinical profile was collected by structured questionnaire which consists of two sections -demographic and clinical profile. The findings revealed that, out of 30 samples, majority 53.33% belongs to the age group more than 60 years, male and female ratio is equally distributed and 80% were belongs to nuclear family and 70% pf the samples belongs to rural area. Majority of the samples 43.33% had secondary level of education, 43.33% of the samples had less than Rs 10,000/ -. By means of the personal habits most of the samples 86.66% does not had any type of personal habits like smoking, alcoholism a nd tobacco products usage .63.33% does not follow any dietary pattern and 66.66% does not had any regular exercise. Regarding the clinical profile, majority of the samples 66.66% had to overweight.73.33% of them had history of DM more than 5 years, 63.33% of the patients had the family history of DM. 50% of the samples had comorbid conditions such as, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases (80%) arthritis (13.33%) hypothyroidism (6.66%). 53.33% of the samples had complications of DM such as, hypoglycaemia (56.25%), neuropathy (25%), infected foot ulcer (12.5%) and visual problems (6.25%). The study concluded that, this data is a base line for further studies on diabetes mellitus.
Keywords: Diabetes mellitus, Type 2 DM, Clinical and demographic profile.