Knowledge, attitude and practice of foot care in diabetes patients with foot at risk attending diabetology department of a tertiary care hospital
| Autor: | Lallu Mariam Jacob, Sruthi Prasad, Haritha K. Harikumar, Sruthy Sivan, D Thankam, Parvathy Nandan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology. 10:160 |
| ISSN: | 2279-0780 2319-2003 |
| DOI: | 10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20210184 |
| Popis: | Background: The current study was undertaken to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of foot care among diabetes patients with foot at risk, to evaluate the impact of counselling in terms of KAP score, VPT (vibration perception threshold) value, foot examination status and other clinical parameter, to assess the severity of peripheral neuropathy in diabetes patients based on VPT value and to assess the prevalence of peripheral neuropathy among men and women.Methods: A prospective cross-sectional and interventional study was conducted in the diabetology department of a tertiary care hospital in South India. A total of 100 diabetes patients with foot at risk were selected for the study. A questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of foot care among diabetes patients with foot at risk. The questionnaire consists of total 24 questions. Their knowledge, attitude and practice were classified as good, satisfactory and poor depending upon the score. For the KAP, if score is ≥70% it was regarded as good, 50-69% as satisfactory and |
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