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I mentioned in the podcast episode that there will be a free download, but I get many request for the download about “What is keto?”, so I decided to keep this available and to publish the key take aways from this episode easy to access here on the blogcast 🙂
How can a chronic illness
effect ones quality of life?
Well, it is a challenging question and I’m sure we all experience T1D a bit different. Yet, there are probably also some things which effect people with chronic illnesses in similar ways. Laura is a former health management student from Germany, type 1 diabetic and the best to address this question to. She wrote her final Bachelor thesis about the impaired quality of life in type 1 diabetes patients (German title is: ”Beeinträchtigung der Lebensqualität durch eine chronische Krankheit – eine qualitative Studie von Diabetes Type 1 Patienten”).
She interviewed many type 1s between 18 and 25 years to find out how T1D effects quality of life and the psyche.
Here are her main findings:
Translation: Even if everyone doubts you and your dreams,
at the end there should be always one person, who believes in you.
This person is YOU!
Believe in yourself.
6 Key findings
by Laura’s study
1
Reasons for changes in quality of life are due to:
– measuring blood sugar
– injecting insulin
– hyper- as well as hypoglycemia
– the effect of daily management in free time activities, sport and work
2
Compared to men, women have more psychologically challenges
e.g. in form of acceptance, body image,
and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
3
Symptoms of depression were present in some interviewees
4
Dealing publicly with insulin injections put some in great discomfort
5
Some participants stated, there is no good medical care
and optimisation is very much needed
6
The study made clear:
There is still a great need to deal openly with this disease
and to educate also non-diabetics about all types of diabetes
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Lauras work contributes greatly to type 1 awareness to optimise medical care we receive.
so go and check her out on instagram https://www.instagram.com/kimdiabefit/
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