Scholarly open access journals, Peer-reviewed, and Refereed Journals, Impact factor 8.14 (Calculate by google scholar and Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool) , Multidisciplinary, Monthly, Indexing in all major database & Metadata, Citation Generator, Digital Object Identifier(DOI)
Background: Diabetes remains a major risk for cardiovascular disease improvement in increasing awareness, treatment and control of diabetes. Undiagnosed and uncontrolled diabetes remains a major public health challenge. The study was conducted with objective to assess knowledge regarding diabetes self-care management on diabetic patients in KGMU, Lucknow U.P
Material and Methods: A descriptive study carried out to assess knowledge regarding diabetes self-care management among 62 diabetic patients from selected ward of KGMU, Lucknow U.P. The participants were chosen by non-probability convenient sampling technique with quantitative research approach. Selection of participants was done on the basis of inclusion and exclusion criteria and then informed consent were taken. A DSMQ questionnaire was used to collect the data. The descriptive and inferential statistics was used to analyse data based on objectives and hypotheses.
Results: The study findings have shown that out of 62 patients, the knowledge level of 8(12.90%) patients had good knowledge, 47(75.80%) had average knowledge, 7(11.29%) had poor knowledge. The study findings reveals that out of 13 variables Age, Gender, Education, Occupation, Locality, Family, Co- Morbidity, Duration of diabetes, Medication, Source of information, Weight, Height, Body Mass Index out of these demographic variables duration of diabetes (df=3 p=0.018), any other illness (df=3 and p=0.01), medication for glycemic control (df=3 and p=0.020), BMI (df=2 and p=0.432) have shown a significant association.
Conclusion: In the current study, majority of the samples were having average knowledge about the diabetic self-care management but still peoples have less knowledge regarding, co-morbidity, duration of diabetes, medication and Body Mass Index Thus by giving right knowledge to them they can enhance their knowledge for good self-care management and they can teach others also for the negligence.
"A study to assess knowledge regarding diabetes self-care management on diabetic patients in selected wards of KGMU, Lucknow U.P.", International Journal for Research Trends and Innovation (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.7, Issue 6, page no.29 - 31, June-2022, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2206006.pdf
Downloads:
000205234
ISSN:
2456-3315 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.14 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
An International Scholarly Open Access Journal, Peer-Reviewed, Refereed Journal Impact Factor 8.14 Calculate by Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool, Multidisciplinary, Monthly, Multilanguage Journal Indexing in All Major Database & Metadata, Citation Generator