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Background: The person with diabetes mellitus has a chronic lifelong disease, the person mustbe knowledgeable to coordinate life style modification in to a daily routine of work to achieve andmaintain normal physiological blood glucose level. The objective of this study was to determinethe knowledge, attitude and practices of LSM management of type 2 diabetic patients in AdamaMedical College Hospital. Methodology: Across-sectional study was conducted to assessknowledge, attitude and practice of type 2 diabetic patients towards LSM management of DM inAdama Medical College Hospital. Data was cleaned and analyzed by using SPSS version 16.0and presented descriptively and analytically. Result: Concerning knowledge of the patients towardsLSM management of diabetic; majority of the patients were knowledgeable which accounts 90(77.59%) followed by 13 (11.21%) patients fairly knowledgeable and the other 13 (11.21%) patientswere poorly knowledgeable. Regarding attitude of the patients 95 (81.89%) patients had positiveattitude and the other 21(18.11%) had fair attitude. In another way almost half of the patients 57(49.1%) had good practice. The other 39 (33.62%) and 20 (17.24%) have poor and averagepractice respectively. Conclusion and Recommendation: The result of this study showed, majorityof type 2 DM patients had good knowledge, positive attitude and good practices towards LSM.The researcher recommend all stake holders (Ministry of health, Diabetic associations, Healthinstitution, health professionals, care givers and NGO) found around this area must cooperateto improve KAP of the patients towards LSM. Especial attention should be given to the practicesof the patients and further research should also be done on this topic. |
