The association between marital quality and diabetes mellitus: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Marital relationship and its quality are among the major psychological factors affecting the multiple aspects of a person's health status. Chronic diseases are also among the factors that affect various aspects of the lives of millions of people including their marital quality status. One of the most important underlying chronic diseases is diabetes. Since the correlation between diabetes mellitus and marital quality has been neglected, this systematic review, as the first one, aims to investigate the association between marital quality and diabetes mellitus.

Methods

A comprehensive search was conducted among three databases (Medline, Scopus, and Web of Science) until September 2021, which resulted in 189 articles. After assessing the studies based on the

SUBMITTER: Rastkar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905793 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature