Awareness and Practice of Diabetic Foot Care among Diabetic Patients Attending to Family Medicine Department in PMMH
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Aims: The current research aimed at identifying deficits at diabetic patients practice and awareness regarding their foot care. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was conducted including 207 diabetic patients attended the PMMH during the period between November 2016 and April 2017 in PMMH, Taif, Saudi Arabia. A direct interview questionnaire was used for data collection and then data was analyzed using SPSS version 22. Results: The study was conducted on 207 diabetic patients who completed the questionnaire with age ranged from 20-75 years and 57.5% were females. All of the included patients complained of one or more foot problems such as feeling of heaviness, tightness pain or numbness. Generally, 30% of the patients did healthy practices and 19.8% of the patients had satisfactory level of awareness regarding their foot care. Patients who have no familiar couple (unmarried) were more aware and recorded better practice than others. Conclusions and Recommendations: The current survey covers that despite the variety at duration of diabetes among the studied patients as more than half of the patients with diabetes for more than 10 years and all of them have one or more foot problems but they recorded very poor practice and awareness regarding foot care. Health education sessions and posters and may be educational videos are required to improve patients practice and awareness.
Authors and Affiliations
Nasser Mohammed Abdulrahman Alamri, Moneer Mohammed AL-Amri, Hussam Mesfer M Alqahatani, Tareq Abdullah A Alrefeidi
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2018.4.1.102
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