Diabetes
Conditions
Interventions
An environmental educational program
Assessment of knowledge and attitude of health care workers at baseline 2 months and 4 months interv
Sponsors
Hossam Mohamed Hasaan Soliman
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants were eligible for this study if they were adult diabetic patients receiving regular insulin injections for more than one month, whether type 1 or type 2, and attended El-Horraya Polyclinic, Alexandria, Egypt.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The study did not include pregnant women who had gestational diabetes.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The first post-intervention visit results show that the participants of the intervention group had a higher median knowledge percentage score of 80 (80-90) which indicated a good knowledge level in both analyses, as compared to the nonintervention group with percentage scores of 70 (60-90) and 75 (60-90) according to intent to treat analysis and per protocol analyses respectively and the difference reached statistical significance (p<0.001). Afterward, at the second postintervention visit, we identified a higher median knowledge score of 80 (80-90) in the intervention group than in the nonintervention group at 70 (60-90) according to both analyses (p<0.001) and the difference was statistically significant. Regarding the practice, at the end of the program, there was a statistically remarkable difference between groups in the median of the participants' overall practice scores, with the intervention group significantly outperforming the nonintervention group and registering a score of 14 which matched the good practice level, while the nonintervention group stopped unchanged at 4.4, which corresponds to a poor practice level. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| At the first postintervention visit, it was found that the proportion of participants with a good knowledge level in the intervention group improved to 98% and 100% from 40% and 41% at baseline according to intent to treat and per protocol analyses and was higher than that of the nonintervention group which recorded 62% and 65% (p <0.001) according to the same analyses. Moreover, the proportion of study subjects with a good level of knowledge in the intervention group at the second post-intervention visit was 96% and 98% according to the intent to treat and per protocol analyses in contrast to 64% and 67% in the nonintervention group (p <0.001). At the first postintervention visit, it was found that the proportion of participants with good practice level in the intervention group increased significantly from 0% at baseline to 68% and 69% according to intent to treat and per protocol analyses respectively whereas in the nonintervention group, it remained unchanged at 4% in both analyses (p <0.001). Moreover, the proportion of respondents with a good practice level in the intervention group at the second post-intervention visit was 84% and 86% according to intent to treat and per protocol analyses respectively, in contrast to 4% (both analyses) in the nonintervention group which remained unchanged from the previous visit (p <0.001). | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Public ContactEbtisam Mohamed Fetohy
Professor of Health Education and Behavioural Sciences High Institute of Public Health Alexandria University
Outcome results
None listed