Prevalence and factors associated with urinary tract infection among diabetes mellitus patients at Kham Thale So Hospital, Nakhon Ratchasima Province

Abstract

A cross-sectional study was conducted, the purposes of the study were to measure the prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI), and to determine factors associated with UTI in diabetes mellitus (DM) patients at Kham Tale So Hospital, Nakhon Ratchasima province. The data were collected by reviewing patient's medical records between October 2017 and September 2020. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results found that 557 patients had UTI of which 408 (73.25%) were female, and 149 patients were male (26.75%). The mean age of the samples was 62.25 years (S.D. = 15.59). The most of patients (20.82%) were in the age range of 51-60 years. In addition, the study found that 113 (20.29%) DM patients were co-infected with UTI. Sex was statistically significantly associated with UTI in DM patients. (p-value < 0.05). Most DM patients (81.18%) were detected to have Escherichia coli, followed by Klebsiella pneumonia at 18.19% respectively. Therefore, the study recommended that health care providers should be conducted a surveillance system for DM patients who were UTI. Physicians should be educated the patients to prevent UTI, especially, among female diabetes patients.