Efficacy of education on knowledge, attitude & practice of Type II diabetic patients in relation to correct nutrition

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the most common metabolic diseases, which accompanies the patient through out his life; unawareness from its consequences in advanced states can cause irreparable physical and spiritual loss. As in time awareness can stop physical and mental loss and also ceases or stop the development of the disease, therefore more attention should be paid to it. This study is a semiexperimental and practical one. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of education on knowledge attitude and practice of type II diabetic patients in relation to correct nutrition in Bu-Ali hospital in Zahedan. People under study include 100 diabetic patients who were systematic randomly chosen and had files in the clinic. The method of performing the study was to assess people’ s awareness, attitude and practice of people before and after the program and the devices (Method) of collecting the data was through questionnaires which was given before and after the education, finally the KAP rate in the two steps were compared. The result showed a great increase in awareness (P