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Foot self-care in diabetes mellitus: Evaluation of patient awareness
- Source :
- Primary Care Diabetes. 13:515-520
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- Aims: To assess diabetic patients’ knowledge and practices regarding foot care. Methods: This study was conducted as a cross-sectional study in 1030 patients between November 2017 and February 2018.The descriptive survey instrument was developed by the investigators. Survey content and format were based on prior surveys and guidelines. The survey sought socio-demographic characteristics of the patients and the level of knowledge about diabetic foot care practice. Results: 29.5% of patients had bad foot care, 49.6% of patients had moderate foot care and 20.8% of patients had good foot care. There were no significant differences between patient groups in regard to age, gender, foot infection history and having undergone amputation surgery. We found that patients who good at foot care had higher education status (p < 0.001), were more likely live in a city (p < 0.001), had higher income (p < 0.001), had been trained about foot care (p < 0.001) and were more likely to have type I DM (p = 0.015). Disease duration was longer in those who had good foot care compared to the other groups (p = 0.010). Conclusions: The mean knowledge and practice scores of our patients were moderate, indicating that much is to be done for the education of patients on this matter. We also found that knowledge about the importance of this practice, education status and disease duration had significant influence on the practice of foot-care in patients with DM. © 2019 Primary Care Diabetes Europe
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
medicine.medical_treatment
Disease duration
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Evaluation of patient awareness-, PRIMARY CARE DIABETES, cilt.13, ss.515-520, 2019 [Karadag F. Y. , Saltoglu N., Ak O., Aydin G. C. , Senbayrak S., Erol S., Ozatag D. M. , Kadanali A., Kucukardali Y., Comoglu S., et al., -Foot self-care in diabetes mellitus]
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
Diabetes mellitus
Internal Medicine
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Foot disease
Aged
Retrospective Studies
Aged, 80 and over
Foot self-care
Nutrition and Dietetics
business.industry
Diabetes
Diabetic foot care
Awareness
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Diabetic Foot
Self Care
Cross-Sectional Studies
Amputation
Physical therapy
Self care
Female
Family Practice
business
Patient awareness
Foot (unit)
Foot care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17519918
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Primary Care Diabetes
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....814de7fb9411dddf6d7fa19ea81fe658