Compliance with diabetic patients with diabetes and requirements of taking education

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is a condition having negative effects on life quality and is getting more common worldwide. So, patient education becomes greater importance due to its positive effects on life quality and patients' adaptive behavior. This study was performed to define patients' adaptive response to condition and their intentions for subjects of education after a patient education session by cross sectional method. Data was collected by a questionnaire including 38 multi choice questions built up by essay the related literature. The study population was composed by patients consulted in endocrinology and internal diseases policlinics and their inpatients. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS (R) 16.0) was used as statistical analyzer. Most of studied patients are female, married, graduated elementary school and housewives and their age distribution was between 53 and 70 years. All of them have a balanced budget and, nearly almost, they were covered by social insurance. The most common morbidity of patients was hypertension and their condition controlled by a physician. Most of them were recommended a specific dietary regime related to their condition by an expert- nearly half are physicians- and the majority of patients were putting the recommend regime into practice. The majority of diabetic patients hadn't had any education on their actual condition and had an intention to take part in an educational activity. The most intended subject was activities for prevention of complications. We defined a statistically significant relation between type and size of family, duration of condition, membership to any related association and publication, and having intention for education. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.