Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Blood Glucose Monitoring among Diabetic’s Patients Attending at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Teaching and Referral Hospital
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hassen, Fatuma (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yirsaw, Kidist | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-29T12:48:06Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-06T08:56:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-29T12:48:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-06T08:56:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Back ground: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a syndrome characterized by chronic hyperglycemia, due to absolute or relative deficiency or diminished effectiveness of circulating insulin. Diabetes is becoming a serious public health problem and it requires continuous medical care, patients' self-management to reduce the risk of long-term complications. The most important objective of monitoring is the assessment of overall glycemic control and initiation of appropriate steps in a timely manner to achieve optimum control. Objective: To assess the knowledge attitude and practice of diabetic patients in blood glucose level monitoring at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Teaching and Referral hospital (TASTRH). Methodology: Facility based cross- sectional study was conducted from June 2015 to October 2015 at the outpatient diabetic clinic, TASTRH. Medical records of the patients were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 422 diabetic patients were selected using convenient sampling techniques. Structured questionnaires including checklist have been used to collect data. On-the-spot assessment of HbA1-c was performed for 95 study participants by using systematic sampling techniques to confirm diabetic patient’s practice. Statistical soft-ware SPSS version 20 had been used for data entry and analysis. Results: Among study subjects the levels of knowledge were good in 61.8 % and poor in 38.2 % of diabetic patients. The levels of attitude were also described accordingly as positive for 80.6% and negative for 19.4 % of diabetic patients. The levels of practice of study subjects were found to be good in 47.6 % and poor in 52.4% of diabetic patients. Knowledge and practices had a significant association with educational level and duration of therapy but attitude had a significant association with age. Among 95 study subjects 15.8% of the participants had good glycemic control of HbA1-c value < 6.5% and 84.2% of participants had poor glycemic control of HbA1-c value ≥6.5%. There was no significant association between HbA1-c value with knowledge and attitude scores but association was found between HbA1-c value and practice score, similarly no significant association was found between HbA1-c with body mass index and hypertension but significant association was found between HbA1-c and complications of study participants. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/5088 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Blood Glucose | en_US |
| dc.subject | Diabetic’s Patients | en_US |
| dc.title | Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Blood Glucose Monitoring among Diabetic’s Patients Attending at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Teaching and Referral Hospital | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |