Illness beliefs predict mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers
Publication Date
April 8, 2016
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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.
Collection dates:
2002-2011
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Divisions
Faculties, Schools and Departments::University of Nottingham, UK Campus::Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences::School of Medicine
Data type
SPSS statistics & metadata
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Grant Number
MC_U145079313
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Legal and ethical issues
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
English
Publisher
University of Nottingham
Date Issued
April 4, 2016
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