Assessment on Diabetes Knowledge among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients and Their Relation to Compliance of Life Style Measures

Abstract:

Diabetes is world-wide in distribution and the incidence of type 1 and 2 diabetes is rising to epidemic proportions in both developed and developing countries. This global pandemic mainly involves type 2, and is associated with several contributory factors such as increased longevity, sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy dietary habits, obesity and increasing urbanization, and globalization. Type 2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, either of which may be present at the time of diagnosis. The present study was undertaken to study the compliance of lifestyle measures and diabetes knowledge. A sample of 150 Type 2 diabetes mellitus patients both males and females of 18 years or older, visiting the outpatient department of Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Center, Chennai have been randomly selected for the research study. A standard pre-tested questionnaire was used for interviewing the selected subjects the diabetes knowledge test scores were found to be 62.1± 13.6 percent. The subjects in the compliant group had better diabetes knowledge that is around 80 percent of mean knowledge than the partially compliant group about 57 percent the data showed that subjects with good dietary adherence also had greater diabetes awareness knowledge.