Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice about Diabetes in Patients and its impact on the Management of T2DM

Ashima Badyal; Sanjeev Kumar

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Assessing the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice about Diabetes in Patients and its impact on the Management of T2DM

Ashima Badyal, Sanjeev Kumar

Abstract :

Diabetes mellitus is a prominent healthcare problem in India. Poor awareness among diabetics influences the progression of diabetes and complications. Objective of this study was to evaluate the KAP in diabetics for DM and impact of the diabetic education on knowledge attitude and practice (KAP score). The study was conducted in the Department of Biochemistry and Medicine, GMC Jammu. Total 100 adult target subjects of either gender were included in the study taken from OPD and IPD of medicine department from July -Nov 2018. The results showed that the mean KAP score at baseline was quite comparable, which changed to 11.67�6.30 and 20.68�4.27 during follow-up, showing a significant intervention of patient education. Besides, the mean RBS test score also improved from 246.98�74.91 mg/dl to 198.32�47.18 mg/dl in the control group, while the same for test group, which improved significantly from 256.88�94.36 mg/dl to 185.13�55.96 mg/dl.