Abstract:
Background: Diabetes chronic complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality,
affect quality of life among which diabetic peripheral neuropathy most common one.
Objective: To assess magnitude of diabetic peripheral neuropathy and associated factors
among adult diabetic patients at public hospital in west Shewa, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted at West shewa on 390
diabetic patients. Data were collected using pretested structured questionnaire, coded and
entered in to Epi data version 3.1 and exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Both
bivariate and multivariable binary logistic regression analysis was used to determine
association between dependent variable and predictor variable at p-value < 0.25 were
entered to multivariable logistic regression analysis and P-value <0.05 was used to declare
statistical significance.
Results: The mean age of the participants was 46.45±15.6 years. Magnitude of diabetic
peripheral neuropathy was 49.2% among study participants. According to the multivariate
binary logistic regression age above 50 years [AOR = 2.93; 95% CI: 1.23, 6.95], family
history of diabetes mellitus [AOR = 1.66; 95% CI: 1.09, 2.50], poor glycemic control [AOR=
1.82; 1.10, 2.99] were associated factors of diabetic peripheral neuropathy.
Conclusion: Half of the diabetic patients present with Diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Age
of participants with a family history of diabetes mellitus, statin treatment, and poor controlled
glycemia were associated factors with Diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Recommendation: Thus, early detection and appropriate interventions are important among
participants aged above 50 years with family history of diabetes mellitus, and poor controlled
glycemia.
