رسائل ماجيستير
English
2016
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among Mothers towards Diabetes in Alsahafa Administrative Unit, Khartoum Locality, Khartoum State, Sudan,( 2015)
AbdELbasit Elawad Mohammed Ahmed, Arafa Elgorashi Musa Abdalla, Awatif Alshreaf Gomndan Adam
كلية العلوم الصحية والبيئية-جامعة الجزيرة · السودان
The burden of diabetes mellitus continues to rise and constitutes a real threat especially in the developing world. As for most non-communicable diseases, change of behavior and adoption of healthy lifestyle habits help to prevent and slow down the increase of diabetes mellitus. The study was aimed to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices, among mothers towards diabetes in Elsahafa administrative unit, Khartoum state, Sudan, 2015. A descriptive Cross- Sectional community based study was carried out during the period from January, 2015 to May, 2016;a questionnaire was conducted and distributed to 380 mothers selected by simple random Sampling in Alsahafa Administrative unit.The data were analyzed by using Statistical Package Social Sciences (SPSS).the study indicated that98.9% of the mothers knew diabetes; 14.1% of the mothers said that diabetes is caused by lack of insulin, 86.4% knew diabetes symptoms; 46.8% stated that they knew all factors causing diabetes, 77.1% knew that both diet and physical exercise are methods for prevention from diabetes. 67.6% had a positive attitude towards diabetes, 68.2% had a positive attitudes towards diet, 52.4% had positive attitudes towards taking sugar, 73.9% had a positive attitudes towards sweets, 73.2% had a positive attitudes towards insulin, 71.6% a had healthy practices towards diet system, 50.5% stated that they practiced physical exercise, and 23.4%wearied diabetic shoes.The study recommended that Health Education must be designed and then directed to the mothers regarding diabetes knowledge, attitudes and practices, change mother attitudes regarding wearing diabetic shoes, promote and sustains group education as well as individualized education programmes for better preventive and management techniques in diabetes,increase the use of media to spread the message which could change the attitude of our public in the future, patient education is important in term of self-monitoring and comprehensive educational programme of diabetes, anda programmes for mothers in diabetes should be promoted by Commitment diet system, get rid of excess weight workout, and avoidance of emotional stress, anxiety and tension, and measuring blood sugar regularly to living with diabetes.