Anxiety, Depression and Eating Attitudes of Diabetes Mellitus Patients During COVID-19 Lockdown in Greece

Chania General Hospital "St. George"

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus; SARS-CoV-2

Treatments: Other: DASS questionnaire; Other: EAT-26 questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04700254

Diabetes and COVID-19

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this observational, cross-sectional study is to evaluate the impact of the second national COVID-19 lockdown in Greece, regarding the aspects of depression, anxiety and eating habits, in relation to the adjusted work and family conditions, among diabetes mellitus patients.

Full description

The national Lockdown was an attempt by the Governments around the world to prevent the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2. This pandemic turned out to be a major public health challenge. In Greece two national lockdown were imposed in 2020, among other measures, in order to minimize the spread of the SARS-CoV-2. The national lockdown consists of the temporary closure of the sports arenas, theaters, cafeterias, restaurants, cinemas, archaeological sites, schools, churches universities and most of the businesses . The first national lockdown in Greece was imposed from March 23th to May 4th and the second one took place from November 6th until now. Such a lockdown that forces the majority of individuals to stay at home for a prolonged period of time, except the controlled movement of the individuals for some cases, could expectedly enough have quite an impact on the daily life of people with diabetes mellitus. Changes to dietary habits, limitation of physical activity, as well as the psychological aspects like those of depression and anxiety have been detected. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the second national lockdown in Greece, regarding the aspects of depression, anxiety and eating habits, in relation to the adjusted work and family conditions, among diabetes mellitus patients.

Enrollment: 150 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age ≥18 years
• Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
• Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
• MODY Diabetes Mellitus

Exclusion criteria

• age <18 years
• gestational Diabetes

Trial design

150 participants in 3 patient groups

working condition

Description:

In order to further explore the differences among working status the data will be categorized into three different groups: suspension of work, employment and unemployment.

Treatment:

Other: EAT-26 questionnaire

Other: DASS questionnaire

Family status

Description:

In order to xplore the differences among the family status, the data will be categorized into the married and the singles DM patients.

Treatment:

Other: EAT-26 questionnaire

Other: DASS questionnaire

BMI status

Description:

In order to further explore BMI scale results, we divided the data obtained from the participants into normal (18.50 - 24.99 kg/m2), overweight (25-29.99 kg/m2) and obese (≥30 kg/m2), according to the international classification of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Treatment:

Other: EAT-26 questionnaire

Other: DASS questionnaire