Job performance

1. Attendance at work
2. Performance
3. Work-life balance

1. Absence from work
2. Low efficiency
3. Difficulty in balancing work
   and personal life

1. Set a work schedule
2. Increasing effectiveness
   in the job
3. Creating compatibility between work and family

Mental health

1. Communications
2. Spiritual-psychological issues

1. Weak communication and
   isolation
2. Stress and anxiety

1. Increasing self-confidence and changing perspective
2. Managing stress and negative thoughts with positive thinking

Socio-economic

1. The cost of treatment and
   medicine
2. The cost of education,
   prevention, and information

1. Increasing the cost of treatment and medicine
2. Existence of education and
   disease prevention costs

1. Putting drugs under insurance coverage
2. Creating a platform to make
   education and prevention
   programs free

Physical
performance

1. Symptoms of the disease
2. Movement and exercise

1. Physical effects of the disease
2. Inability of some patients to move and exercise due
   to old age

1. Timely care and appropriate treatment and follow-up
   through health centers
2. Sufficient movement and daily exercise and age-appropriate exercises

Nutrition

1. Diet
2. Weight control

1. Not following the diet
2. Obesity and weight gain

1. Reducing the consumption
   of carbohydrates in the diet
2. Lowering body weight

Health care

1. Providing services
2. Follow up and care

1. Low quality in service delivery
2. Weakness in following up with diabetes patients

1. Providing services with more
   effort and attention from health and treatment managers
2. Creating a suitable program to follow up with patients

Knowledge
and awareness
about the disease

1. Medicl information about diabetes
2. Knowledge of self-care

1. Weak medical information in most patients
2. Low awareness in most patients regarding self-care knowledge

1. Studying and raising awareness about the disease
2. Raising awareness of self-care knowledge with the training
   of health experts

The patient
family

1. Caring for patients at home
2. Preparing the patient’s medicine
3. The condition of the patient

1. The burden and fatigue of caring for the patient at home
2. Problems in preparing the
   patient’s medicine
3. Anxiety caused by thinking
   about the patient’s health

1. Empowering patients in self-care
2. Cooperation with the family of diabetic patients through pharmacies, introducing health centers
3. Supporting the patient and
   raising self-confidence