Understanding health-related quality of life trajectories among older adults with diabetes mellitus: Mixed methods research.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To examine health-related quality of life trajectories among older adults with diabetes mellitus (DM).

Design

A sequential explanatory mixed method study protocol.

Methods

In the quantitative phase, health-related quality of life trajectory over 5 years, from 2009 to 2013, of a national representative sample (N = 440) of older adults with DM was analysed using group-based modelling. Next, a qualitative multiple case study (N = 10) was conducted between November 2017 and April 2018. In the mixed phase, by linking the quantitative and qualitative data, similarities and differences among the four trajectories were identified.

Results

Four distinctive health-related quality of life trajectories could be distinguished: high then decrease, high stable, medium sta

SUBMITTER: Park S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10495725 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature