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| UDK 616.379-008.64 | ISSN 0350-2899, 30(2005) 1 p. 17-22 | ||||||||||
| Original paper Diabetes Mellitus - How much do the patients know about their diseaseSlađana Jovanović, Marija Bogdanović-Živkov |
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| Summary: Diabetes mellitus demands
continuous health care and educational work with the patients. The General
Practice Service plays an important role in that work. The aim of this
research is to determine the impact of health care and educational work on
the patients’ knowledge about their disease. This study is based on the
results of a questionnaire that has been conducted on 191 patients
suffering from diabetes. About three fourths of the tested patients do
know that obesity aggravate diabetes, and more than half of them can list
true causes leading to excessive weight. Specially prepared food is always
used by about 30% of tested patients of all ages, and 42% has four meals
per day. 70% of them think that they have normal weight or slightly more
than normal. The majority of the tested patients is quite aware that
nervous tension aggravates diabetes (86.7%), and that physi¬cal activity
is beneficial for the patient (87%). Practically all of our patients
(97.7%) have received written instructions about nutrition and physical
activity, and 86.7% of them get satisfactory advices and instructions from
their physicians. Four fifths of the tested patients can recognize sudden
drop of blood glucose, and 86% will take some sugar in such a situation.
Almost all of them know that it is important to treat diabetes "properly",
and three fourths provide correct answers to the question: What does it
mean to treat diabetes "properly"? The average amount of glucose in the
blood per year is higher than 8.1 mmol/l for 74.35% of the tested
patients. This fact indicates that the disease has been poorly controlled,
in spite of the patients’ good knowledge of the disease which has been
confirmed by the questionnaire. Therefore there should be more educations
for the patients until they start behaving according to what they have
learnt. Key words: diabetes mellitus, health care educational work, general practice, blood glucose Note:
full text in Serbian |
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Corresponding Address: Slađana Jovanović Negotinska 2a, 19000 Zaječar e-mail: vjovanovic@mas.bg.ac.yu |
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Paper received: 07.12.2004. Paper accepted: 18.01.2005. Published online: 30.04.2005. |
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