Health seeking Behaviour among elderly population with diabetes mellitus type 2 residing in rural Punjab: A Baseline assessment
Journal Title: Harsukh Educational Charitable Society International Journal of Community Health and Medical Research - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
A drastic increase in prevalence rates of type 2 diabetes mellitus among marginalized populations in rural India has been ignored since long. Moreover several cultural, socioeconomic and changing lifestyle factors appear to contribute to diabetes in rural regions of Northern India. Delays in seeking appropriate care and not seeking at all, may contribute to a large number of deaths in the developing countries. Therefore the study was conducted to assess the baseline health seeking behaviour among elderly population with diabetes mellitus type 2 patients in rural Punjab. A study was conducted on 243 elderly subjects (>60 years) with diabetes mellitus type 2 living in selected villages from Block Dehlon, district Ludhiana, Punjab in North India. Cluster random sampling technique was used to select the samples from villages. The data was collected by interview method with the help of self structured checklist to assess health seeking behaviour based on health services availability, accessibility and affordability. Findings revealed that 94% of the elderly diabetics with mean age 67.13±6.82 years visited PHC for treatment and preferred allopathic treatment. Maximum had adherence to the treatment. Majority subjects were staying within 1 km distance from their residence; taking less than an hour; using own transport and preferred going alone for the consultation. 153(62.9%) subjects were dependent on family support and mean annual treatment cost for DM was nearly 10000 INR including drug cost, travelling, consultation visit and investigations. Elderly rural population suffering from diabetes have appropriate health seeking behaviour in terms of preventive and curative aspects. Community based interventions could enhance health seeking, and could help in glycemic control.
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Prabhjot Saini, Jasbir Kaur, Sarit Sharma, Parminder Singh
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