Objective Diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness that requires ongoing patient self-management and support to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long- term complications. The objective of the study was to assess diabetic self-care practice and its predictors among adults with diabetes mellitus on follow up at hospitals of Arsi zone, southeast Ethiopia. Results Above half (53.3%) of diabetic patients had good self-care practice. Younger age (AOR: 8.95, 95% CI 1.89,42.48), earning a high income (AOR: 2.495, 95% CI 1.0,5.85), having a family history of diabetes (AOR: 4.5, 95% CI 1.3, 15.5), long duration since the diagnosis of diabetes (AOR: 2.14,95% CI 1.127,4.05), not having diabetic complications (AOR: 3.87, 95% CI 2, 7.48), and having glucometer (AOR: 4.08, 95% CI 1.78 l, 9.33) were significantly associated factors with good diabetic self care practice. Efforts should be made to prevent complications of diabetes mellitus, to support patients who are aged and who have no glucometer at their home to promote good self-care practice. Particularly, health care providers should give special attention to newly diagnosed patients.

Background: Effective pain management requires precise knowledge and competent skills in practice. Nurses should have a solid foundation of pain knowledge and develop good practice pain management. Little is documented towards nurse's knowledge and practice of pain management among critical ill patients in the study area. Objective: To examine the level of knowledge, practice & associated factors of nurses towards critically ill patients pain management at federal hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia September to October 2020. Method: A cross-sectional study design was conducted among nurses, who work at federal hospitals of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 15 to October 15, 2020. All intensive care unit nurses was participated in the study. Data was collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and entered into Epi info version 7 and imported to SPSS version 23.0 software for analysis. Associations was analyzed by using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression model. The findings were expressed with 95% CI and odd ratio and P-value<0.05. Result: Knowledge of nurses towards pain management in the study area is 64.9%. Among many factors contributed to the nurses' pain management knowledge in the Multivariate logistic regression: work load (

Introduction Diabetes mellitus is a chronic illness that requires continuing medical care and ongoing patient self-management, education and support to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. Therefore, this study aims to assess the self-care knowledge, attitude and associated factors among outpatients with diabetes mellitus in Arsi Zone, Southeast Ethiopia. Materials and methods A cross sectional study was employed in Arsi Zone, Southeast Ethiopia from April to June 2017 among 290 patients with diabetes mellitus. Structured questionnaire was employed through face to face interview. Bivariate and multivariate regression was done and a statistical significance was declared at p value < 0.05. Results Among 290 respondents, 64.8% and 27.6% of them had good knowledge and good attitude towards self-care in this study respectively. Being married (AOR: 3.41, 95% CI: 1.480–8.095), being employed in occupation (AOR: 5.8, 95% CI: 2.26–14.67) and living in higher socioeconomic status (AOR: 2.0, 95% CI: 1.096–3.322) are the independent factors associated to good knowledge of respondents towards self-care whereas living in lower socioeconomic status(AOR: 0.478, 95% CI: 0.262–0.874), having informal education (AOR: 4.002, 95% CI: 1.941–8.254), not having family history of diabetes mellitus (AOR: 0.422, 95% CI: 0.222–0.803) and having short duration of diagnosis (AOR: 3.209, 95% CI: 1.537–6.779) were significantly associated factors to have poor attitude towards self-care. Conclusion Majority of the study participants had good knowledge towards diabetes self-care practice while a significant number of the participants had unfavorable attitude towards diabetes self-care. Being married, being employed and living in higher socioeconomic status were the determinant factors of knowledge towards the diabetes self-care practice while having informal education and having short duration of diagnosis were the significant factors associated to the unfavorable attitude towards diabetes self-care practice. Therefore, efforts should be made on enhancing patients’ socioeconomic status and equipping with diabetic self-care centered health information particularly for those patients with short duration of diagnosis.

Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM)is a chronic illness that requires ongoing patient self-management and support to prevent acute complications and to reduce the risk of long-term complications. The objective of the study was to assess diabetic self-care practice and its predictors among adults with DM on follow up at hospitals of Arsi zone, southeast Ethiopia. Results: Above half (53.3%) of diabetic patients had good self-care practice. Younger age (AOR: 8.95, 95% CI: 1.89,42.48), earning high income (AOR: 2.495, 95% CI: 1.0,5.85), having family history (AOR: 4.5, 95% CI: 1.3, 15.5), long duration of diagnosis (AOR: 2.14, 95% CI: 1.127, 4.05), not having diabetic complications (AOR: 3.87, 95% CI: 2, 7.48) and having glucometer (AOR: 4.08, 95% CI: 1.78l, 9.33)were significantly associated factors with good diabetic self are practice. Efforts should be made to prevent complications and to support patients who are aged and who have not glucometer at their home to promote good self-care practice. Particularly, health care providers should give special attention for newly diagnosed patients.