pharmaphorum October 5, 2023
A digital health application (DiGA) has been shown to relieve the distress that patients can experience when managing diabetes, which can compromise their care, in a randomised clinical trial.
Diabetes distress is an emotional reaction specific to the demands of diabetes and diabetes therapy – leading to feelings of hopelessness, discouragement and exhaustion – which is not necessarily pathological, but can become so if present at an elevated level, according to study investigator Dominic Ehrmann of the FIDAM diabetes research institute in Germany.
He told the EASD meeting this week that it is clinically relevant to monitor diabetes distress, as high levels have been linked to a risk of depression, poorer quality-of-life, and suboptimal management of diabetes that can worsen...
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