Abstract

Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study based on validated self-administered questionnaires on diabetes mellitus awareness, knowledge, and practice performed on 100 subjects including 50 diabetic and 50 non-diabetic carried out in outpatient department in civil hospital after taking ethical committee approval. The second part included 15 questions focused on the knowledge of diabetes etiology (high blood sugar and low insulin level in blood), clinical manifestation (increased thirst, urination frequency, tiredness, and slow healing of wound), complications (eye and kidney problems, foot ulcers, and heart problems), management by life style modification required for diabetic (weight reduction, stopping smoking, and alcohol), factors help in controlling blood sugar (regular exercise, blood sugar monitoring, planned diet, medication, and education), anti-diabetic drug used in DM treatment (insulin, metformin, and glyburide), drug therapy, utilization, and adherence (diabetic medicine can be stopped immediately, after 1 month or should be continued lifelong, and can diabetic person miss his/her medication dose), monitoring method (checking blood or urine sugar level), hypoglycemic symptoms (weakness, confusion, and visual disturbances), hypoglycemia management (taking sugar, or medicines or insulin), various diagnostic domain involved in controlling DM (frequency of eye examination, urine test, and blood pressure test recommended for diabetic patients). Table 5 shows the practical approach of diabetic participants toward DM control by measuring blood pressure, eye examination, and urine analysis was examined. [6] reported that only 50.8% of population knew the condition diabetes. [...]there is a need to educate people on diabetes in rural as well as urban areas.

Details

Title
A cross-sectional study on knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding diabetes mellitus in diabetic and non-diabetic population
Author
Makwana, Piyush 1 ; Dodiya, Dharmendra 2 ; Vadasmia, Divyesh 3 

 Department of Physiology, GMERS Medical College, Dharpur-Patan, Gujarat, India 
 Department of Physiology, GMERS Medical College, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India 
 Department of Physiology, GMERS Medical College, Himmatnagar, Gujarat, India 
Pages
845-849
Section
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Publication year
2022
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Association of Physiologists, Pharmacists & Pharmacologists
ISSN
23204672
e-ISSN
22313206
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2673385078
Copyright
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