Effect of self-management education package on specific quality of life among diabetic patients in Urmia Diabetes Centers

Zaker, M.R and Shams, SH and Sadeghi Moghadam, A and Moradi, Y (2016) Effect of self-management education package on specific quality of life among diabetic patients in Urmia Diabetes Centers. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 9 (3). pp. 1-4.

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Abstract

Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world that has had multiple serious complications and will be causing many health and socioeconomic problems for humanitarian community with the result that QOL of persons is affected. This study aimed to determine the impact of training in quality of life, diabetes self-care was conducted. Method and Materials: The pre-experimental intervention study was performed on patients with diabetes were referred to the Diabetes Association Urmia 80 samples were randomly selected with regard to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and then randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. Data in this study was obtained from specific quality of life of diabetic patient’s questionnaire and a demographic questionnaire before and after the intervention in both groups were used. The intervention group received 8 sessions of training in self-care (Power point, pamphlets and booklets) were used. Re-evaluation of 3 months after treatment and the results of t-test and chisquare test software spss16 were analyzed. Findings: The average of the quality of life of dedicated individuals in the intervention group, Before the intervention was (42/22±4/59) that after the intervention reached (56 ± 3/96) and this difference was statistically significant (P=0/001). Conclusion: This study showed that self-care education on diabetes-specific quality of life will increase self-care in diabetic patients

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