Measuring the Impact of Ego Strength Among Type 2 Diabetes

Abstract

Diabetes is becoming one of the most common medically, scientifically challenging and economically taxing significant diseases of the 21st century. It is estimated that the total number of people with diabetes in 2010 to be around 50.8 million in India, rising to 87.0 million by 2030.World Health Organization criteria. Globally developed and developing nations are becoming subject in its epidemic proportions. This ubiquitous condition will have an ever-increasing impact on all aspects of medicine and public health domain. Diabetes is the paradigm of a condition that necessitates a multidisciplinary and holistic approach in its care management and control of treatment. Primary care physicians, surgeons, nurses, dieticians, psychologists and ophthalmologists etc. are all drawn into this process. Keeping these paramount important points, the researcher conducted empirical research to explore the impact of ego strength among type 2 diabetes. For this 200 samples of Hazaribag District were selected. Incidental cum random purposive sampling technique was adopted. The subjects were distributed between diabetics and non-diabetics and then further divided gender wise. (No.50 female diabetics), (No.50 male diabetics) (No.50 male non diabetics), (No.50 female non diabetics). Two scales Personal Data Sheet and Ego Strength Scale by Qamar Hasan were administered on the subjects. Data was collected, tabulated and analysed with the help of Mean, SDs and t-ratio of acquired data. It was found that t was not significant. Key features responsible for building ego strength such as social interaction, healthy interpersonal relationship, happy married life and many more relevant factors in this context. Moreover, the subjects were age group of 50 and their ego strength was not shattered by any misfortune and in addition to that even fear of death anxiety does not hamper their social life and simultaneously the harmony in their interpersonal relationship. They are employed, well settled and do not have any economic crunch and thus diabetes doesn’t weaken their ego strength.