Prevalence of shoulder pain with functional Disability among diabetes mellitus patients in Bangladesh

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was, to assess the prevalence of Prevalence of Shoulder Pain with Functional Disability among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Bangladesh. Objectives: To explore the socio demographic characteristics of diabetic patient, to assess the association between shoulder pain and diabetes mellitus, to identify the number of diabetic patient suffering from shoulder pain, to determine the common treatment option, to understand the severity of pain, to explore the functional disabilities due to shoulder pain. Methodology: A quantitative cross sectional research model in the form of a prospective type survey design is carried out in this study. Conveniently 212 participants among the patients with Diabetes Mellitus were collected from BIRDEM General Hospital and Tangail Diabetic Hospital, Bangladesh. The instruments used included direct interview, a standard questionnaire and shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI). Data were numerically coded and captured in Excel, using an SPSS 20.0 version program. Result: The findings of the study provide a baseline of information about prevalence of Shoulder pain among the patients with Diabetes Mellitus. In this study, 72.6% (n=154) respondents were female and rests of 27.4% (n=58) were male. The mean age of the participant was 42.44 years. Study found that majority cases 75.9% (n=161) participants were suffering Type-2 diabetes mellitus whereas 24.1% (n=51) respondents were suffering Type-1 diabetes. Most of 60.4% (n=128) participants were living at urban area followed by 39.6% (n=84) participants were living at rural area. Study focuses 25.5% (n=54) diabetes patients were suffering shoulder pain. Among them, 22.2% (n=12) diabetes patients were feeling disability due to pain. Keywords: Shoulder Pain, Diabetes Mellitus, Prevalence, Functional Disability.