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- Title
Development of a validated questionnaire to assess knowledge and awareness among uncontrolled diabetic patients toward diabetes mellitus.
- Authors
Kumar, M. Ashok; Shanmugasundaram, P.
- Abstract
Background: Health literacy is an integral part of diabetes management. Patients with good knowledge of diabetes and its complications seek proper treatment and care and take charge of their health. Objective: This study was designed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the knowledge and awareness of uncontrolled diabetic patients toward diabetes mellitus (DM). Methodology: We developed a 15 item, two domain questionnaires to assess the knowledge and awareness among uncontrolled diabetic patients and examined for internal consistency, reproducibility, convergent, and discriminant validity using Cronbach’s alpha, intraclass correlation, and corrected-item to total correlation scores, respectively. Results: The final version of the questionnaire was found to be statistically internally consistent, reproducible, and reliable and could be used to assess the awareness and attitude of patients toward self-management of DM. Conclusion: This questionnaire has been developed to quantify the awareness and attitude of uncontrolled diabetic patients toward diabetes mellitus and thereby arrive at outcomes to develop systematic strategies for promotion of knowledge, awareness, and self-care practices.
- Subjects
HEALTH self-care; DIABETES; PEOPLE with diabetes; CRONBACH'S alpha; INTRACLASS correlation; HEALTH literacy
- Publication
Drug Invention Today, 2019, Vol 11, Issue 4, p801
- ISSN
0975-7619
- Publication type
Article