Abstract
Objective: To examine the associations between mental health and lifestyle in adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T1DM and T2DM). Methods: Online survey data from the cross-sectional Diabetes MILES – The Netherlands Study was analysed, including 270 adults with T1DM and 325 with T2DM. Mental health status (flourishing, moderate and languishing) in relation to diet, physical activity, alcohol consumption and smoking was analysed with ANCOVA and logistic regressions (adjusted for confounders). Results: 47% of T1DM-, and 55% of T2DM participants reported flourishing mental health. Due to an insufficient number, participants with languishing mental health were excluded. In T2DM, participants with flourishing mental health had more optimal diet quality (mean ± SEM: 70 ± 1 vs 68 ± 1 diet quality score, p = 0.015), and physical activity levels (mean ± SEM: 3484 ± 269 vs 2404 ± 273 MET minutes/week, p = 0.001) than those with moderate mental health, but did not differ with respect to alcohol consumption and smoking. In T1DM, no significant associations were found. Conclusion: Only in T2DM, people with flourishing mental health had more optimal lifestyle behaviours compared to people with moderate mental health. Further research is needed to determine if mental health is more important for specific lifestyle behaviours, and if the mental health effect differs across diabetes types.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Artikelnummer | 110950 |
| Tidsskrift | Journal of Psychosomatic Research |
| Vol/bind | 160 |
| Antal sider | 8 |
| ISSN | 0022-3999 |
| DOI | |
| Status | Udgivet - sep. 2022 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:The Diabetes MILES-NL study was supported by the Prof. dr. J. Terpstra Young Investigator Award 2010 from the Dutch Association for Diabetes Research (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Diabetes Onderzoek)/Lilly Diabetes to GN. The funding source had no role in the design, data collection, analysis or interpretation of the study, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
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We would like to thank all participants who participated in Diabetes MILES-NL study. We also thank Professor Jane Speight (affiliated with the Deakin University, and The Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes) for her central role in the international Diabetes MILES collaborative, and her advice for setting up the Diabetes MILES study in the Netherlands. We thank the Dutch Association for Diabetes Research for the grant for the Diabetes MILES study. Finally, we thank the Dutch Diabetes Association and the Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation for their kind and very valuable assistance in the recruitment of participants.
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