On Treatment Satisfaction and Socio Cultural Parameters –A Study conducted among Diabetics of Kerala

Inquiries on treatment satisfaction are important to enhance the quality of care, especially when dealing with chronic diseases like Diabetes. Higher rate of treatment satisfaction leads to high rate of compliance and clinical outcome. Various factors contribute to the treatment satisfaction, among which socio economic parameters have a significant role. As the impact rate of diabetes varies according to region, and development pattern, a localised study on diabetic condition in Kerala which tries to understand the relationship between treatment satisfaction and socio cultural background of diabetic is important. The independent variables of the study are gender, type of institutions, religion, marital status, nature of occupation, nature of residence and the dependent variable is Treatment satisfaction. Result shows that diabetics from nuclear families show better treatment satisfaction than joint families. Male diabetics acknowledged high rate of treatment satisfaction in comparison with female counterparts. Supplementary medicine takers do better than supplementary medicine non-takers. Treatment satisfaction is significantly different among different educational, marital and occupational groups of the diabetics. Lastly the study shows that the treatment satisfaction of the diabetics is not significantly different within different religious groups.