TY - JOUR TI - COVID-19 pandemic effects on diabetic patients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia A1 - Alshaikh, Abdulrahman Abdulmhsen A2 - Mallawi, Maisa Mohammed Abdullah A3 - Aljuhani, Shahad Yousef Abdulhamed A4 - A5 - Aljohani, Nesrin Mazi Awad A6 - Aljehani, Doaa Ahmed A7 - Alsayyad, Lena Mohammed Jalal A8 - Alghamdi, Rawan Ahmed Abdullah A9 - Baz, Albatool Mohammed Abdullah A10 - Alsayed, Maha Hamied Atyan A11 - Alluhaybi, Rasha Abdulaziz JF - International Journal of Medicine in Developing Countries JO - IJMDC SN - 1658-7820 VL - 4 IS - 11 SP - 1912 EP - 1917 Y1 - 2020 AB - Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a recently emerged global catastrophe costing thousands of lives and making millions of people sick all over the world. This study aimed to assess the COVID-19 effects on diabetic patients and to explore its effects on follow-up visits, medication refills, and psychological impacts on diabetic adults and adolescent patients in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.Methodology: In this cross-sectional study, 234 adult/adolescent male and female diabetic patients, with Saudi or non-Saudi residency, were randomly enrolled. A pre-tested questionnaire was used for data collection in 2020.Results: Majority of the participants were female (67.9%), and in the age group of 46-65 years (59%). About 53.4% of the participants reported that they had received guidance about self-management of diabetes from governmental or nongovernmental organizations during the COVID-19 lockdown and the major source of guidance was physicians (70.5%). Only 49.6% of the participants monitored their blood glucose regularly during the lockdown, once or twice per day (44.8%, 28.4%, respectively) and 70.5% did not face any difficulties in finding the monitoring accessories. Regarding the impact of the lockdown on the follow-up visits, 152 participants (65%) pre-scheduled their follow-up visits with their physicians. Of the total participants, 57.7% feared that they would contract COVID-19 infection more than non-diabetic people and 23.5% reported disturbances in their sleep cycles that happened many times.Conclusion: Many patients reported a change in their lifestyle and eating habits, which may predispose them to difficulties in their glycemic control. PB - https://www.ijmdc.com DO - 10.24911/IJMDC.51-1601567409 UR - https://www.ijmdc.com/?mno=3867 ER -