Evaluation of the effect of eyeball movement training on mild cognitive impairment in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients
Objective To investigate the effect of eyeball movement on cognitive function and balance ability of type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM)patients with mild cognitive impairment.Methods A total of 62 T2DM patients with mild cognitive impairment who were treated in the Department of Endocrinology of our hospital from August 2021 to June 2022 were randomly divided into the control group(n=31)and experimental group(n=31)by convenience sampling.Routine nursing was applied to all patients,and the eyeball movement was additionally given to patients of the experimental group for 8 weeks.The Berg Balance Scale(BBS)score,the Montreal Cognitive Assessment(MoCA)score,and the time and error times of the Trail Making Test B(TMT-B)before and after intervention were compared.Results The group comparison showed that after 8 weeks of eyeball movement training,the scores of cognitive function and balance ability in the experimental group were significantly higher than those of the control group(P<0.05).The time of TMT-B in the experimental group was significantly shorter than that of the control group(P<0.05).The intragroup comparison showed that after 8 weeks of eyeball movement training,the scores of cognitive function and balance ability in the experimental group were significantly higher than those before intervention(P<0.05).The time of TMT-B in the experimental group was significantly shorter than that before intervention(P<0.05).Conclusion The eyeball exercise can delay the decline of cognitive function and improve the balance ability of T2DM patients with mild cognitive impairment.
eyeball movement trainingcognitive functionbalancetype 2 diabetes mellitus