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    Knowledge, Attitude, Practice, and Associated Factors towards Glycemic Control among Diabetes Mellitus Patients in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
    (Addis Abeba University, 2021-06) Mezgebe, Yemane; Beza, Lemlem(Ph.D. Assistant professor); Tesfay, Berhanu (MD, assistant professor of emergency medicine and critical care)
    Background: Diabetes mellitus, (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia due to absolute or relative insulin deficiency and it remained the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Hyperglycemia or high blood sugar is a common sign of uncontrolled diabetes and leads to severe damage. Poor understanding of the disease could affect glycemic control and result in preventable Diabetic complications. Accordingly, good knowledge, attitude, and practice of glycemic control are important to increased quality of life,minimize diabetes complications,and lower the incidence of death. Objectives: -This paper detailed the cross-sectional study that measures knowledge, attitudes, and practices, and associated factors of diabetic patients about glycemic control. Methods and Materials: A total of 361 were enrolled in the study, the recruitment tool place by using systematic random sampling techniques in one academic teaching hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The knowledge, attitude, and practices were measured using standard structured questionnaires. Result: Nearly half (48.8%) of the respondents were males. Good practice was independently associated with gender; accordingly, the male was 1.62 more likely to have good practice compare to their counterpart female gender (AOR=1.62, 95%CI: 1.005-2.62, p= 0.04). However, those participants between 18-35 age groups were 72 % less likely to have good practice verse to reference group followed by participants between the age group of 51-65 who were 51% less likely to have good practice towards glycemic control Conclusion: -Despite they have experienced the event of the hyperglycemic and routine visit of a diabetic patientto a diabetes clinic; the knowledge, attitude, and practice about glycemic were found to be good.