Glicemic control, knowledge and self-management from diabetic patients type 2, attending educational sessions
Keywords:
Self-care, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Educational SessionsAbstract
Introduction: The importance to incorporate diabetes education to people who have that medical condition as a delivery’s health service, everyday is more indispensable to achieve the interactive participation and co-responsibility from the own patient and his family for the metabolic control and effective treatment of the disease.
Objective: Explore level of knowledge and self care, and identify initial and final glycemic levels of Diabetes type 2 patients who attend to educational sessions.
Methodology: Sixty-nine diabetic patients were selected by convenience to explore the aspects of knowledge related to Diabetes Mellitus type 2 and their level of self care; Glycemic levels on initial and final blood samples were obtained from laboratory tests included in the correspondent clinical chart. Data were statistically analyzed with relative frequencies and central tendency measurements.
Results: 100% of the patients finished the complete educational sessions. 52% are male and the major proportion is between 60 and 79 years old. A half of the cases has the acceptable knowledge about the disease and its complications; in contrast, 71% of them are within the acceptable level of self-care. A favorable change was observed in 40 patients, whose average lowering of glycemia was of 93.98-mg/dl ±95.97 (P≤0.05).
Conclusions: In relation with the glycemic control improvement in the group of surveyed patients, more than a half lowers the measurements of fasting glycemias after they attended to educational sessions.
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