Nurse training model effects on diabetes mellitus 2 patients knowledge and self-care
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Keywords
Diabetes mellitus, Self-care, Knowledge
Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus is a chronic disease that demands the person who suffers it to carry out actions directed when its suffering, to control specially diet and exercise. Nevertheless, an important percentage of these patients, presents levels of glycemia over the normal ranges.
Objectives: To evaluate the knowledge on the disease and self-care of the diabetic patients with nurse training model, with whom they receive traditional information.
Material and methods: Transversal comparative study to 90 patients who finished the meetings of the nurse training model and 45 patients with habitual information, To which a survey was applied validated in order to evaluate its basic knowledge and self-care on the disease, the analysis of the information was realized by descriptive statistics chi2 y t de student. The processing of information was made with the statistical package SPSS10.
Results: The average age was of 57±11 years. 53.3% of the patients with the nurse model has major knowledge, self-care and control of glycemia that those who received the habitual information with only in 30.3%.
Conclusions: The patients with the nurse training model take a better metabolic control as levels of glycemia that the patients who are not in the educational model.
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