Effectiveness of structured teaching program on life style modification of diabetic patients

Diabetes is a silent disease-many sufferers, become aware that they have diabetes, only when they develop one of its life-threatening complications. Knowledge of diabetes mellitus can assist in early detection of the disease and reduce the incidence of complications. An understanding of the level of public awareness is helpful for health educators to plan for future programmes.

The present study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching program me on life style modifications among diabetic patients in Kempe Gowda institute of Medical sciences hospital and research centre, Bangalore

A pre experimental study with single group pre-test and post-test design by using non probability convenient sampling. 500 diabetes type 2 patients were selected. Structured interview schedule was used to establish the pre-test knowledge score and structured teaching programme was administered for selected type 2 diabetes patients and post-test was conducted to establish the effectiveness of the teaching programme on diabetes lifestyle modification

It is evident from the result that the pre test knowledge mean score was found to be 19.21 as compared to post test mean score of 46.02. Further the enhancement of mean knowledge score was found to be 30.01. However, the statistical paired t test indicate the enhancement of knowledge was found to be highly significant (t= 95.60*, p < 0.01) revealing the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on diabetes lifestyle modification.

It is concluded that teaching program me showed highly significant effect on life style modification among diabetic patients.(t=95.60, p<0.01).