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      Illness beliefs predict mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers

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      Publication date
      2016-04-04
      Creators
      Vedhara, Kavita
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      Background: Patients’ illness beliefs have been associated with glycaemic control in diabetes and survival in other conditions. Objective: We examined whether illness beliefs independently predicted survival in patients with diabetes and foot ulceration. Methods: Patients (n=169) were recruited between 2002 and 2007. Data on illness beliefs were collected at baseline. Data on survival were extracted on 1st November 2011. Number of days survived reflected the number of days from date of recruitment to 1st November 2011. Results: Cox regressions examined the predictors of time to death and identified ischemia and identity beliefs (beliefs regarding symptoms associated with foot ulceration) as significant predictors of time to death. Conclusions: Our data indicate that illness beliefs have a significant independent effect on survival in patients with diabetes and foot ulceration. These findings suggest that illness beliefs could improve our understanding of mortality risk in this patient group and could also be the basis for future therapeutic interventions to improve survival.
      External URI
      • https://rdmc.nottingham.ac.uk/handle/internal/48
      DOI
      • http://doi.org/10.17639/nott.45
      Subjects
      • Diabetes -- Complications
      • Foot -- Diseases
      • Foot -- Ulcers
      • Patients -- Psychology
      • Diabetes -- Mortality
      • Proportional hazards models
      • Diabetic Foot
      • Diabetes Mellitus -- complications
      • Patients -- psychology
      • Diabetic Foot -- mortality
      • Proportional Hazards Models
      • Illness beliefs; Glycaemic control; Diabetes; Foot ulceration; Survival; Death; Mortality risk
      • JACS Subjects::Medicine and Dentistry::Clinical medicine
      • Library of Congress Subject Areas::R Medicine::RC Internal medicine
      • Library of Congress Subject Areas::W Medicine and related subjects (NLM Classification)::WK Endocrine system
      Divisions
      • Faculties, Schools and Departments::University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences::School of Medicine
      Deposit date
      2016-04-08
      Data type
      SPSS statistics & metadata
      Funders
      • Funders::Medical Research Council
      Grant number
      • MC_U145079313
      Collection dates
      • 2002-2011
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      The data contained therein were obtained from human participants who did not consent to third parties using their information. Thus, access to the data is in collaboration with the authors via the Division of Primary Care, University of Nottingham (contact: pamela.pepper@nottingham.ac.uk)
      Resource languages
      • en
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      • University of Nottingham
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      University of Nottingham

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