Abstract:
Stress basically increases the sugar level in blood. In recent years, the
complexities of the relationship between stress and diabetes have become well known.
Some studies have suggested that stressful experiences might affect the onset and/or the
metabolic control of diabetes, but findings have often been inconclusive. The cause of
most disease cannot be enumerated, but factors that enhance the effect of the disease
can be typically analyzed. In this study two different sample community, one was civil
community from Sainthamaruthu public and other from the faculty of applied sciences,
south eastern university of Sri Lanka were studied for the prevalence of diabetic
mellitus and its association with job stress.
The study result revealed that the prevalence of diabetic mellitus in the civil
community whose age were greater than 34 years was 15.79 % and it was 26.42 % for
the University community. 18 % of males and 13.5 % of females had diabetic but this
association was not significant (P=0.596). There was 8.7 % high prevalence of diabetic
among the people who do some jobs than unemployed or house wives but this
percentage is not statistically significant (p=0.270). No significant difference in BMI
level for the diabetic and non diabetic were observed (p= 0.506). When the both parents
had diabetic, then there was 60 % chance that the child also to get diabetic. When one of
the parents had diabetic, than this chance was 25 %. It was found that the diabetic
patients1 neck circumference was 1.45 cm higher than the normal people. (p=0.035).
