Soliman Hossam Mohamed Hassan, El-Zoka Aleya Hanafy, Fetohy Ebtisam Mohamed, Hussein Mohamed Fakhry
Department of Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Health Administration and Behavioural Sciences Department, High Institute of Public Health, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Sci Rep. 2024 Dec 23;14(1):30590. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-81308-y.
The disposal of sharp waste generated at home by diabetic patients poses a major public health problem. This study evaluated an educational program designed to improve patients' knowledge and practices around sharps disposal. A non-equivalent quasi-experimental study was performed at a main diabetic center in Egypt on 100 participants divided into intervention and non-intervention groups. The effect of the interventional program was tested by the evaluation of the improvement in participants' knowledge and practice after two and four months of the program. Initially, there were no differences in knowledge or practice scores between the groups. After the implementation of the program, there was a noticeable difference in subjects' knowledge levels and scores between the two groups, with the intervention group significantly outperforming the non-intervention group (p < 0.001). There was a significant improvement in overall practice scores in the intervention group across post-intervention visits, and they registered a score of 14/16, which matches a good practice level, while in the non-intervention group, the score remained unchanged at 4.4/16, which corresponds to a poor practice level (p < 0.001). These findings suggest that educational programs can effectively increase diabetic patients' knowledge and improve their sharps waste disposal practices.Clinical trial registration number: PACTR202310841894237. Date: 05 October 2023, "retrospectively registered".
糖尿病患者在家中产生的锐器废物处理构成了一个重大的公共卫生问题。本研究评估了一项旨在提高患者关于锐器处理的知识和实践的教育项目。在埃及的一个主要糖尿病中心对100名参与者进行了一项非等效准实验研究，这些参与者被分为干预组和非干预组。通过评估项目实施两个月和四个月后参与者知识和实践的改善情况来测试干预项目的效果。最初，两组之间在知识或实践得分上没有差异。项目实施后，两组受试者的知识水平和得分出现了显著差异，干预组明显优于非干预组（p < 0.001）。干预组在干预后的各次访视中总体实践得分有显著提高，他们的得分为14/16，达到了良好实践水平，而非干预组的得分保持在4.4/16不变，这对应于较差的实践水平（p < 0.001）。这些发现表明，教育项目可以有效增加糖尿病患者的知识并改善他们的锐器废物处理实践。临床试验注册号：PACTR202310841894237。日期：2023年10月5日，“追溯注册”。
