Life style activities and feeling state responses in community sample of diabetic patients in Eastern Providence Saudi Arabia.

BACKGROUND: The aim of the present study was to surveyed life style activity levels within diabetic patients attending the King Fahd teaching hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, and studied their feeling towards performing different physical activity.
METHODS: For this purpose, thirty Diabetic patients were randomly recruited, physically tested and handed a questionnaire to fill in.
RESULTS: The result showed that the levels of physical activity are low and found an excessive use of cars by patients to go to public services and homes of friends and neighbors. Such unhealthy lifestyle habits encouraged patients to follow unhealthy habits such as disordered working patterns and infrequent social activity. While for those who follow healthy lifestyle pattern have better feeling while doing certain activities. For instance, patients who exercise running or jogging activities have better feeling while they rum. Moreover, patient who have healthier relaxing lifestyle pattern, have better feeling of what they do while they relax.
CONCLUSION: The use of exercise physiologists or physiotherapists and psychologists, education system is highly needed to explaining about the health benefits of physical activity. Physical activities should be promoted within the real context of the built environment in the eastern province, KSA. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.