Oral Language Conditions In Adults With Diabetes Mellitus 2 (Dm2)

Abstract

It is a descriptive study with a quantitative approach and cross-sectional design. This one was aimed at characterizing the oral language conditions in 66 adults with DM2 with a mean age of 62 years affiliated with a program for the promotion and comprehensive care routes maintenance for a subsidized public health provider institution. The anamnesis format was applied for the identification of the predisposing factors to language alterations based on the criteria included in the WHO Steps questionnaire (2006), and the Borrregón and González aphasia exploration and differential diagnosis test (2000). The SPSS Statistics version 24 statistical package was used for data coding and processing. The results indicated that adults with DM2 show predisposing factors for high blood pressure, heart problems, hypercholesterolemia, and obesity due to inadequate eating habits and physical inactivity. In addition, a handicap in the established expressive system by a low performance in the subsystems of long repetition, complex sentences, and after pauses. And also, in formulating sentences with one and two words, narrating before an image and on a given topic with the presence of literal paraphasias linguistic errors, perseverations, echolalias, and paragrammatism. As well as in comprehensive language difficulties in responding orally task to questions discovering subjects, understanding a heard text, and in figurative language evidence of circumlocutions, neologisms, anomies, semantic and unrelated paraphasias. In conclusion, the general findings of the oral language conditions of adults with DM2 indicate that they present compromises, with a greater decrease in expression in the subsystems of repeating, narrating, and formulating.