Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

Urinary tract infection is the second most commonly seen bacterial infection in the health care sector Each year, more than 8 million people were diagnosed with UTI. According to the National ambulatory medical survey, urinary tract infection accounted for nearly 7 million outpatient visits and 1 million emergency room visits, resulting in 1, 00, 00 hospitalizations.⁴ Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus are at increased risk of infections, with the urinary tract being the most frequent infection site.

The objectives were to assess the knowledge on prevention of UTI and to find out the association between the knowledge on prevention of UTI and selected demographic variables.

This was a pre experimental one group pretest and post test design used over a period of 4 months. The sampling technique was simple random sampling technique with the sample size 32 women with type 2 diabetes mellitus and structured questionnaires was used to assess the knowledge on prevention of UTI. Seven days interval was kept between pretest and post test after the implementation of STP on prevention of UTI. Ethical clearance was obtained. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed. Descriptive and inferential statistical were used.

The study result reveals that Pretest level of knowledge on prevention of Urinary Tract infection mean score was 4.62 and the Post test level of knowledge mean score was 9.37 which projects ‘t’ value of 10.68 which was statistically significant at p<0.05 level. The post test knowledge score is greater than the pre test knowledge score. The Mean difference was 4.75. This indicates the structured teaching programme on prevention of urinary tract infection is effective in increasing the knowledge level, thereby it may reduce the frequency of UTI among type 2 Diabetic women.