Document Detail


Compliance to diabetes self-management in rural El-Mina, Egypt.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21526654     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is a serious public health problem that threatens the quality of life of patiens with diabetes, the success of long-term maintenance therapy for diabetes depends largely on the patients' compliance with a therapeutic plan.
AIM OF THIS STUDY: To assess compliance of diabetic patients to diabetes self-Management in rural El Minia, and to determine the associated factors related to it.
SUBJECTS AND METHOD: Cross sectional analytic study. Rural adults identified as having previously diagnosed diabetes were recruited to participate in this study. A total of 206 rural community diabetics were randomly chosen and subjected to interview questionnaire on history of diabetes, type of medication, self-management of diabetes as glucose examination, dietary modification, and eye examination.
RESULTS: Mean age of participants was 54 +/- 6.3 years and mean duration of diabetes was 12 +/- 8 years. Nearly one third of the patients used insulin and more than half used oral hypoglycemic. The results of this study revealed that good adherence to diabetes self-management was reported among 41.7% of adult diabetic patients who show good adherence to diet instructions, but only 21.4% to blood glucose test. There was no gender difference regarding self care of diabetes. Younger age group had more glycemic control than older age; longer duration of diabetes was significantly associated with poor glycemic control.
CONCLUSION: Compliance to self-management of diabetes is suboptimal among rural adult community diabetic.
Authors:
Eman M Mahfouz; Hala I Awadalla
Related Documents :
16897074 - Short-term activation of peroxysome proliferator-activated receptor beta/delta increase...
12893474 - Metabolic effects of alcohol on skeletal muscle.
8638694 - Interaction of carbohydrate and fat fuels in human skeletal muscle: impact of obesity a...
6115864 - Inhibitory effect of epinephrine on insulin-stimulated glucose uptake by rat skeletal m...
2776094 - Diabetes mellitus in mohawks of kahnawake, pq: a clinical and epidemiologic description.
21998614 - High glucose stimulates the expression of erythropoietin in rat glomerular epithelial c...
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Central European journal of public health     Volume:  19     ISSN:  1210-7778     ISO Abbreviation:  Cent. Eur. J. Public Health     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-04-29     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9417324     Medline TA:  Cent Eur J Public Health     Country:  Czech Republic    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  35-41     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, El Minia University, Egypt.
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  Racial/ethnic differences in predictors of PSA screening in a tri-ethnic population.
Next Document:  Influence of sociodemographic factors on Helicobacter pylori prevalence variability among schoolchil...