A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Prevention of Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications Among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Selected Hospitals at Bangalore

At present, India is considered as the diabetic capital of the world with approximately 35 million suffering from this disorder. The long term complications of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) like micro and macro vascular complications are becoming more common as more people live longer with diabetes. A study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program on prevention of micro vascular and macro vascular complications among patients with diabetes mellitus at KC General Hospital, Bangalore. The research approach adopted for this study is an evaluative approach. The research design selected for this present study was Quasi-experimental design. The sample size consists of 50 DM patients, 25 in control group and 25 in experimental group. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the respondents. A structured knowledge questionnaire (SKQ) was administered to assess knowledge in pretest among experimental and control group on the first day. Structured Teaching Programme (STP) was administered on the same day of pretest to Experimental Group. SKQ was administered after 7 days of administration of STP to assess its effectiveness. The results of major findings indicate that the DM patients had inadequate knowledge regarding micro vascular and macro vascular complications and its prevention. STP was found to be a very effective method of providing information regarding prevention of micro vascular and macro vascular complications. There was a significant difference between the pretest and posttest knowledge score on prevention of micro and macro vascular complications of DM among experimental and control group with a student ‘t’ value of 26.52 which was significant at 5% level. There was significant association between the findings and demographic variables such as age group, type of family, family income and duration of illness. The study concluded that the STP on prevention of micro and macro vascular complications of diabetes mellitus was an effective method for providing moderate to adequate knowledge and help DM patients to enhance their knowledge to prevent vascular complications.

Author(s): Dr. Bhushanam YC, Dr. Ravi CM, Kiran Nagaraju, Shekar HS, Nagaraju B, Padmavathi GV

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