1Lecturer, Chief Khalsa Diwan, College of Nursing, Amritsar
2Professor, University College of Nursing, Faridkot
3Professor & Head, SPM Dept. GGSMC, Faridkot
*Address for Correspondence: JASDEEP KAUR Lecturer, Chief Khalsa Diwan, College of Nursing, Amritsar, Punjab Mobile: 8872967956 E-mail: brar_jasdeep@yahoo.com
Online published on 29 November, 2017.
Diabetes is common both in the developed and the developing world. However remains uncommon in the underdeveloped world.
The present study was conducted with a view to find the prevalence and knowledge regarding diabetes mellitus among urban and rural population in selected areas of Faridkot.
A sample of 500 individuals selected purposively from urban and rural area of Faridkot. Tools used for data collection were a structured interview schedule, Glucometer (Accu check). Reliability of the tool was confirmed before the final data collection by try out and pilot study done in month of December 2012. After inculcating the necessary changes, final data collection was done from 15th December 2012 to 15th January, 2013. The analysis of the data was done with the help of SPSS Software Version 15 package. Descriptive statistics used were mean, and standard deviation and inferential statistics with the help of chi-square & t-test.
Overall prevalence of diabetes mellitus is 16.5% & more in urban area with 13% of the subjects than rural area with 3.2% of the subjects & overall adequate knowledge of diabetes mellitus is 59.2% & more in urban area with 35.4% of the subjects than rural area with 23.8% of the subjects but still 40.8% subjects were having inadequate knowledge.
It is concluded that prevalence of diabetes mellitus is high but study subjects are inadequately aware of it. Therefore awareness campaigns should be arranged to make the people aware and prevent this deadly but preventable disease
Diabetes mellitus, prevalence, knowledge, urban, rural
