The Impact of Refractive Errors Instability on the Life Quality of the Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

The present work aims to study the refractive error instability effects on life quality among type 2 diabetic patients and to understand the issues in people with refractive error. The cross-sectional study was conducted among patients of Ghazi Al-Hariri Hospital and Al-Diwaniyah Teaching Hospital from 1/11/2023 to 1/3/2024. A slit lamp, E chart, lensometer, OCT, trial case, and some tests were performed. One copy of the questionnaire was completed for each subject out of 100 diabetic patients. The present study included (48%) male and (52%) female who were diagnosed as type II diabetic patients. The results show that (89%) of patients had a refractive error in one or both eyes. Most of the participants (51%) had astigmatism followed by myopia (21%), and (17%) participants had hyperopia, most astigmatic patients have difficulty with doing things (54%), interfering with their life (50%), planning with friends (49%), feeling burdened (50%) and embarrassed (50%), and it shows diabetic patients with a longer duration of DM (97%) had a higher risk of ocular disease than patients with a shorter duration (45%). We conclude that evaluation of life quality is associated with refractive errors and that vision performances which depend upon diabetic patient’s views increased in recent years, and measuring of life quality helped us greatly to reach an accurate comprehension of decision, need, treatment as well as elevation of the person’s social level in life.