Abstract
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM)
increases mortality, reduces quality of life and brings economic burden to patients, their families and society. Besides the direct effects on human health, diabetes also affects the quality of sleep. Objectives: The study was conducted to 1. Assessing the quality of sleep of type 2 diabetes outpatients treated at the Hospital of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy and 2. Exploring factors related to sleep quality of patients with type 2 diabetes in outpatient treatment at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital. Subjects and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study on 400 patients with type 2 diabetes treated as outpatients at the Internal Medicine clinic, hospital of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy from June 2020 to February 2021. The patient’s medical records were also used to collect the subclinical index. Results: 55.2% of patients had poor sleep quality according to PSQI scale, the mean score of the whole subject was 5.64 ± 3.67. Poor sleep quality was associated with poor HbA1c control (OR = 1.776; 95% CI: 1.149-2.745) and education level (OR = 1,65; 95% CI: 1,051-2,577) with p < 0.05 in the multivariate regression model. Conclusion: Patients with type 2 diabetes have a high rate of poor sleep quality. Controlling lifestyle behaviors and adherence to treatment take an important role in minimizing the possibility of poor sleep quality