Hermis Alaa Hamza, Muhaibes Fakhria Jaber
Ph.D Student in University of Babylon\College of Nursing, Babylon, Iraq.
Al-Mustaqbal University, Nursing College, 51001 Hillah, Babylon, Iraq.
J Educ Health Promot. 2024 Feb 7;13:38. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_353_23. eCollection 2024.
Diabetes mellitus is one of the growing medical problems that affect people of all ages worldwide. Education is an important part of treatment in this chronic condition. The primary objectives of diabetes education include improving knowledge and skills, changing the patient's behavior, motivating them to follow therapeutic recommendations, establishing self-care habits, and increasing their psychological resilience. The authors aimed to examine the effect of a training program on type 2 diabetic patients' self care and investigate their perspectives on the educational program.
The current study used a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design that was conducted in Iraq. Sixty patients who met the selection criteria were included in the study. Data were collected by demographic questionnaire and the Diabetes Self-Care Scale (DSCS). Data analysis was done by independent T-tests and Paired -tests were used to compare the scores before and after the intervention.
The sample included 60 diabetic patients with more than half of them being female (55%). Most respondents aged between 50 and 60 years old, and next to half of them had only primary school education. We found that training programs can improve self-care behavior among diabetic patients so that following the intervention, the self-care score increased from 1.79 ± 0.360 to 3.17 ± 0.546 ( = 0.01).
Since diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the whole individual's life, self-care plays an important role in preventing potential complications and improving quality of life. Training programs, on the other hand, increase the awareness and knowledge of patients and enable them to handle this chronic condition properly.
糖尿病是一个日益严重的医学问题，影响着全球所有年龄段的人群。教育是这种慢性病治疗的重要组成部分。糖尿病教育的主要目标包括提高知识和技能、改变患者行为、激励他们遵循治疗建议、建立自我护理习惯以及增强他们的心理适应能力。作者旨在研究一个培训项目对2型糖尿病患者自我护理的影响，并调查他们对该教育项目的看法。
本研究采用准实验性的前测-后测设计，在伊拉克进行。60名符合入选标准的患者被纳入研究。通过人口统计学问卷和糖尿病自我护理量表（DSCS）收集数据。数据分析采用独立样本t检验，配对t检验用于比较干预前后的得分。
样本包括60名糖尿病患者，其中一半以上为女性（55%）。大多数受访者年龄在50至60岁之间，近一半的人只有小学教育程度。我们发现培训项目可以改善糖尿病患者的自我护理行为，干预后，自我护理得分从1.79±0.360提高到3.17±0.546（P = 0.01）。
由于糖尿病是一种影响个体整个生活的慢性病，自我护理在预防潜在并发症和提高生活质量方面起着重要作用。另一方面，培训项目提高了患者的意识和知识，使他们能够妥善应对这种慢性病。
