Introduction: Approximately 171 million pe-ople suffer from type 2 diabetes, worldwide. It is estimated that the figure will be 300 million people in 2025. The aim of this research was to compare executive functions of type2 dia-betic patients with normal people.
Materials & Methods: This research was a de-scriptive and causal comparative study. 50 patients with type 2 diabetes were selected from Fateme-Al-Zahra diabetes centre via acc-essible sampling method. The patients, com-peleted general health, Beck depression inve-ntory and Wisconsin card sorting test questi-onnaires. Normal group consisted of 34 people from the patient’s relatives and staff of Fat-eme-Al-Zahra diabetes centre. For analyzing the data covariance test was used.
Findings: The results showed that after deter-mining depression as the Covariate variable, type 2 diabetic patients had lower executive functions than normal people. These patients had more perseveration errors than normal people.
Discussion & Conclusion: Executive functions (cognitive flexibility and abstract ability) have deficiency among diabetic patients and this deficiency is influenced by depression. Instr-ucting cognitive flexibility to these patients can decrease their deficiencies in executive fu-nctions.
ashrafi hafez A, soltani E, taghavi M, gharlipour Z. The comparison between executive functions of patients with type 2 diabetes and normal subjects. J. Ilam Uni. Med. Sci. 2014; 22 (3) :109-116 URL: http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-2003-en.html