Abstract: Objective: To investigate the status quo of hypoglycemic fear in diabetic patients and analyze its influencing factors, so as to provide referencesfor the improvement of hypoglycemic fear. Methods: Totally 196 diabetic patients admitted to the Department of Endocrinology of four hospitals in Luoyang city from June to November in 2018 were selected as subjects according to the inclusive criteria. Questionnaires were used to gather relevant information and SPSS 21.0, a statistical software was used for data analysis. Results: In this study, 196 patients with diabetes had a score range of 0 to 49, median 15, and interquartile interval (12.25, 20.00), indicating a higher level of hypoglycemic fear. Single factor analysis showed that different gender, marital status, type of diabetes mellitus severity, disease duration, low frequency, low blood sugar, the latest glycosylated hemoglobin index of diabetic hypoglycemia fear score differences statistically significant (P<0.05), multiple linear regression analysis showed that the total hypoglycemic fear score from mean sum of squared residuals can be gender, marital status, duration, type of diabetes, low frequency, severity, a recent glycosylated hemoglobin explain percentage is 30.3%. Conclusion: Most diabetic patients have a fear of hypoglycemia. In clinical nursing, medical staff should provide guidance on related knowledge of hypoglycemia for patients with female, divorce or widowhood, disease duration more than 20 years, type 1 diabetes, occurrence frequency of hypoglycemia more than once a week, and latest glycosylated hemoglobin ≥7%, so as to alleviate patients' fear of hypoglycemia.

Key words: diabetes mellitus; hypoglycemia fear; influencing factors