Educación diabetológica y control metabólico en diabéticos tipo 2, de cuatro consultorios del Centro de Salud Urbano Playas, año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Diabetes mellitus endocrine-metabolic disease of great morbidity and mortality worldwide. The basic tool of the treatment is the diabetological education, to empower the patient of his chronic pathology and reduction of complications. Materials and Methods: Relational, observational, prospective, cross-sectional study in 89 type 2 diabetic patients from the Playas urban health center, year 2018, who do not have mental alterations or are pregnant. A survey and laboratory tests were applied that looked at the variables: sociodemographic, knowledge about diabetes, biochemicals such as glycemia, cholesterol, triglycerides and glycosylated hemoglobin. The statistical analysis was done with the SPSS program version 22 and for its association, chi square of independence was used with a level of significance of 0.05 .Results: the female sex predominated (61.80%) and the age group of 59 to 68 years old, with primary school level (51.7%) and a non accessible basket (61.8%), an adequate level of knowledge prevailed in all varibles studied in 43.5% of controlled patients and 56.5% of those that were not controlled, except in the symptoms of decompensation and insulin. 59.6% of metabolically uncontrolled patients prevailed. There was no significant association in the study variables (p> 0.05). Conclusions: There was no statistically significant difference between the level of knowledge and metabolic control in all study variables.