• Muhammad Nazim Farooq, Aqsa Mehmood, Fatima Amjad, and Jaweria Syed.
• Muhammad Nazim Farooq, PhD. Islamabad College of Physiotherapy, Margalla Institute of Health Sciences Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
• Pak J Med Sci. 2021 Jul 1; 37 (4): 1211-1214.

ObjectiveTo assess the prevalence of shoulder pain and functional disability (SPFD) in Type-1 diabetic patients, and to explore its association with duration of the disease, age and gender.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was carried out on previously diagnosed patients with Type-1 diabetes mellitus between April 2019 and March 2020. Data was collected from six hospitals including three tertiary care hospitals of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Three hundred and twenty-eight patients were recruited through convenience sampling. Shoulder Pain and Disability Index was used to determine SPFD among participants. Point-biserial and Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated to find out the correlation between the variables. Independent t-test was used to determine the difference in the mean scores between the variables.ResultsThe prevalence of SPFD was found 85.7%. A significant correlation was found of the SPFD with age (r = 0.332, p < 0.001), duration of the diabetes mellitus (r = 0.154, p = 0.005) and gender (rpb = 0.171, p = 0.002). A significant difference was found in SPFD mean scores between female and male patients (female patients = 43.42±22.80, male patients = 35.31±22.91, p = 0.002).ConclusionSPFD seems prevalent among Type-1 diabetic patients. Increasing age, long history of diabetes mellitus and female gender appear the associated risk factors for the shoulder pain and disability.Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.

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