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Association of Type 1 Diabetes, Social Support, Illness and Treatment Perception with Health Related Quality of Life
This study examines the importance of perceived social support, perception of illness and treatment on health related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with type 1 diabetes. The purpose was to assess how type 1 diabetes, perceived social support, perception of the illness and treatment can be predictors of health related quality of life and how these factors associate. Additional purpose was to establish the reliability of Illness Index and Treatment Index among Greek population. Four questionnaires were used, the Missoula-VITAS Quality of Life Index-15 (MVQoLI-15), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), the Illness Index, and the Treatment Index. Participants were type 1 diabetics. The sample consists of 60 volunteers, 19 males and 41 females. All participants were Greeks. There was a correlation between variables of social support, treatment and illness index and the variables of HRQOL. Several domains of social support, the illness and treatment perception, are statistically significant predictors of the total HRQOL. Treatment and Illness Scales were found highly reliable among Greek population (20 items; α = 0.93). Results suggest that social support interacts with relationships, spirituality and the total QOL. Family interacts with spirituality and total QOL. This study indicates friends as the most important and positive factor towards most of the HR-QOL's subsections. Findings support that perception of the condition (II) and perception of the treatment (TI) are predictors of HRQOL. This study aims to establish the reliability of Illness and Treatment Index among Greek population
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Associations of vitamin D status with dietary intakes and physical activity levels among adults from seven European countries: the Food4Me study
To report the vitamin D status in adults from seven European countries and to identify behavioural correlates. In total, 1075 eligible adult men and women from Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Greece, UK, Poland and Germany, were included in the study. Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency, defined as 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 (25-OHD3) concentration of <30 and 30-49.9 nmol/L, respectively, were observed in 3.3 and 30.6% of the participants. The highest prevalence of vitamin D deficiency was found in the UK and the lowest in the Netherlands (8.2 vs. 1.1%, P < 0.05). In addition, the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency was higher in females compared with males (36.6 vs. 22.6%, P < 0.001), in winter compared with summer months (39.3 vs. 25.0%, P < 0.05) and in younger compared with older participants (36.0 vs. 24.4%, P < 0.05). Positive dose-response associations were also observed between 25-OHD3 concentrations and dietary vitamin D intake from foods and supplements, as well as with physical activity (PA) levels. Vitamin D intakes of ≥5 μg/day from foods and ≥5 μg/day from supplements, as well as engagement in ≥30 min/day of moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA were associated with higher odds (P < 0.05) for maintaining sufficient (≥50 nmol/L) 25-OHD3 concentrations. The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency varied considerably among European adults. Dietary intakes of ≥10 μg/day of vitamin D from foods and/or supplements and at least 30 min/day of moderate- and vigorous-intensity PA were the minimum thresholds associated with vitamin D sufficiency