Role of Education of Diabetes to Controlling Plasma Glucose, Urea, Creatinine, Uric Acid in Central Hospital Nampula.

Abstract

Modern approaches to diabetes primarily rely upon dietary and lifestyle management, often combined with regular ongoing blood glucose level monitoring. The diabetic education is a fundamental requirement of management of non-pharmacological treatment of diabetes. Medication alone not able to control diabetes. There should be patient behavior changed from continuing learning about diet, physiology, continues learning, preventive management of complication of diabetes, knowledge of diseases, self-managing small problem and inform to medical staff, use information technology .    There is fast and gradually increasing number of patients with diabetes in Mozambique due to a pattern of poor dietary habits, sedentary lifestyle, urbanization, obesity, and the use of traditional healers for the treatment of diabetes, which leads to complications such as diabetic foot and the amputation of feet. Another common factor to complication diabetes is the impact of the antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV on diabetes. Diabetes education was performed with general and specific groups of patients according to the needs of the patients, the complications of the diabetes mellitus and other diseases associated with them. Three education sessions were organized at central hospital Nampula at an interval of one month (baseline, first follow up and second follow up). Each participant was evaluated in each session regarding their plasm glucose, uric acid, and creatinine and urea concentrations. The statistical analysis showed strong significantly correlation positive effects on controlling each of these parameter.