14 % of diabetics suffer depression and 25 % feel discriminated against

14 % of people suffering from diabetes believe that they suffer depression, 25 % say they are socially discriminated against and more than 70 % recognize that they must improve their eating habits and do more physical exercise.

These are some of the data listed in the study of attitudes, desires and needs before Dawn2 diabetes, which has been presented today at the XIII Congress of the Catalan Diabetes Association.

People with diabetes recognize that they must improve the self -control of their illness, but claim, for this, more training resources, according to the conclusions of the DAWN2, which has been presented by the Diabetes educator of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Mutua Terrassa Hospital, MaiteValverde.

Dawn2 is a survey conducted in 17 countries, Spain among them, people with diabetes, their relatives and the health professionals who attend them.

Of the more than 5.3 million Spaniards who are estimated to suffer from this disease -it is given the official consideration of "epidemic" -, 590,000 are Catalan.

Throughout the world, the International Diabetes Federation updated in 2014 the number of people with diabetes to 387 million.

In the case of Spain, 73.2 % of the patients surveyed for Dawn2 admit that they should improve their eating habits and 71 %, the practice of some physical activity, despite the fact that the diet and exercise are two of the pillars onThose that settles the self -control of diabetes, together with the taking of prescribed medication and the monitoring of blood glucose levels.

The study reveals that only 50 % of those who suffer from diabetes claim to have ever attended individual meetings about this disease and its treatment, and only 38 %, to group meetings with the same objective.

The percentage is even lower in the field of relatives, since only 1 in 5 claim to have received any training, despite the fact that the majority demand this type of support to help their relatives with diabetes to live with it.

The issues on which they express the most interest are, in this order, food guidelines (57.5 %), treatments and drugs (53 %) and general information about the disease (51 %).