Level of self-care practice and attitude among adults with type 2 diabetes
Abstract
Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic, metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose and emerged as a major public health problem. Self-care is one of the processes to manage their health by adopting skills and attitude to avoid disease and health recovery. Patients who have good self-care and right attitude could manage their illness to avoid complication by doing self-management.
Methodology: AQuantitative, Descriptive cross sectional research design was adopted. The study was conducted among adults with type 2 diabetes who are attending an outpatient clinic at Government hospital, Chennai. 200 participants were selected by non-probability convenient sampling technique. Demographic data such as age, gender, education. Occupation, type of family, duration of DM and Monthly income were collected. Summary of diabetes self-care activities (SDSCA), Attitude towards diabetes self-care questionnaire were used to collect the data.
Results: Among 200 participants,49% had satisfactory self-care practice and 51% had unsatisfactory self-care practice. Respondents had an overall SDSCA score of 33.18 ± 11.55. The study results found that half of the participants (50%) had satisfactory scores for diet, while 51% obtained a satisfactory overall score for the physical activity, foot care and blood sugar testing. Adults with type 2 diabetes had most favourable attitude towards diet, glucose & BP monitoring, medication adherence than attitude towards weight management, exercises and foot care.
Conclusion:The level of self-care practice was found to be sub-optimal even though the majority of them had a favourable attitude. Nurses should deliver adequate health information regarding diabetic self-care practices.
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