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- Title
Knowledge and attitude of patients with diabetes mellitus in Primary Health Care.
- Authors
Cordeiro Assunção, Suelen; Pereira Fonseca, Alisson; Fagundes Silveira, Marise; Prates Caldeira, Antônio; de Pinho, Lucinéia
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the knowledge and attitude of patients with diabetes mellitus in Primary Health Care and associated factors. Methods: Cross-sectional, quantitative and analytical study with 353 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Family Health Strategy units. The Knowledge and Psychological Attitudes Questionnaires were used for data collection, as well as a script with sociodemographic, economic and clinical data. Results: The majority of the population was female (73.1%), aged more than 50 years (81.5%), diagnosed for more than five years (54.9%) and with a per capita income of up to half a minimum wage (59.3%). The scores of knowledge and attitude were low. Age (p = 0.001) and level of education (p = 0.002) were variables associated with knowledge about diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: Users had a low level of knowledge about diabetes, indicating an unsatisfactory result in self-care and mainly a negative attitude towards coping with this disease.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; DIABETES &; psychology; TREATMENT of diabetes; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; AGE distribution; CONFIDENCE intervals; INCOME; PRIMARY health care; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; STATISTICAL sampling; HEALTH self-care; LOGISTIC regression analysis; QUANTITATIVE research; EDUCATIONAL attainment; CROSS-sectional method; HEALTH literacy; DATA analysis software; PATIENTS' attitudes; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; CLUSTER sampling
- Publication
Anna Nery School Journal of Nursing / Escola Anna Nery Revista de Enfermagem, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1414-8145
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/2177-9465-EAN-2017-0208