Knowledge, attitudes and practices for the prevention of diabetic foot

Policarpo, Natalia de Sá; Moura, Jayne Ramos Araujo; Júnior, Eugênio Barbosa de Melo; Almeida, Paulo César de; Macêdo, Suyanne Freire de; Silva, Ana Roberta Vilarouca da

doi:10.1590/1983-1447.2014.03.45187

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“…The study showed that most of patient's responses to preventive foot care practices were satisfactory especially in (self-foot care, daily foot washing, ensuring that shoe size before buying it). The proportions of these positive practicing responses were high, whereas majority of them reported that they personally depending on theirselves to caring foot, this positive practice has shown in other studies (9,21). Majority of diabetic patients reported that they always practicing foot washing daily, and this important practice has come in accordance with other studies (4, 8).…”

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Assessment of Preventive Foot Care Practices among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type II

Noaman

2017

J. Fac. Med Baghdad

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Background: Diabetic foot problems are one of the most important complications of diabetes mellitus which causing a worldwide high cost morbidity which could be due to poor self-practices. Objectives: To assess the preventive food care practices among diabetic patients and to find out any significant association of these practices with selected socio-demographical and diabetic related characteristics. Patients and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Baquba city from the period of 20 th Septembers, 2016 up to 20 th March, 2017, by selecting a sample of (120) patients by using a structured questionnaire, the questionnaire composed of three parts, the first part contains information related to patients' demographic characteristics, the second part contains some information related to diabetic characteristics and the third part of the questionnaire consists of different questions about preventive foot care practices which consist of 14 positive items. Each one of these items must be answered either with (Always, Never or Sometimes). A three levels Likert scale was used to measure the variables. Finally, the data analyzed using SPSS (Ver.18) and the Chisquare was used to find out any association between studied data and preventive foot care practices. P ≤ 0.05 was considered significant in the present study. Results: Out of 120 diabetic patients, (40%) of them were over 60 years, (52.5%) were male patients, about one third (32.5%) were illiterate, most of them (40.8%) had moderate monthly income, majority of them (66.7%) were living in urban areas. Also the current study showed that the patient responses to preventive foot care practices were satisfactory at all studied items, except at the these items "drying my feet after washing, regular use of lotion or oil to moisturizing foot, taking care when clipping my toenail and visiting doctor after foot injury , their responses assessment were unsatisfactory. It was found that (62.5%) of the studied patients had an acceptable and good foot care practices. Conclusions: It concluded from this study that most of the diabetic patients had an acceptable and good foot care practices, and didn't indicates a significant association between the patients' age, gender, residency, duration of disease and previous history of foot ulcer with overall assessment of preventive foot care practices, and there was only significant association with overall assessment of the studied preventive diabetic foot care practices with patients' educational level and monthly income.

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Assessment of Preventive Foot Care Practices among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type II

Noaman

2017

J. Fac. Med Baghdad

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“…Levels of knowledge in the present study were in the low to average range, and self-care practices were inadequate or moderately inadequate. These findings coincide with other investigations that pointed out significant deficits in levels of knowledge, in addition to self-care practices that were either not performed or were incomplete (10,13,18) . These results are striking and lead one to reconsider whether the intervention strategies used for people with DM and their caregivers are effective for achieving the necessary and pertinent changes in the care behavior of this group of people.…”

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“…At the same time, knowledge is conducive to proper foot care, whereas lack of knowledge and/or clear daily foot care plans increases the risk of developing ulcers and amputations (9) . It also leads to inadequate practices and confirms the thesis that even diabetics with proper attitudes are unable to perform correct self-care practices (10) . This indicates that the foot care knowledge and practices of patients are highly associated (11) .…”

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“…In the present study, the self-care practices of women were moderately adequate. However, in the literature review, the findings in relation to the analysis of knowledge, attitudes, and practices indicate that men, statistically, have more knowledge about appropriate footwear, whereas women are more inclined to include self-care practices in their daily routine (10) .…”

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confidence: 95%

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Conhecimentos e práticas para a prevenção do pé diabético

Ramírez-Perdomo

Perdomo-Romero

Rodríguez-Vélez

2019

Rev. Gaúcha Enferm.

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Resumo OBJETIVO Descrever os problemas e as práticas realizadas para a prevenção do pé diabético. MÉTODOS Estudo descritivo, transversal com amostragem aleatória estratificada, em 304 pessoas com Diabetes Mellitus tipo 2. Os dados foram coletados com o uso de um instrumento delineado pelas pesquisadoras que avalia aspectos sociodemográficos e o nível de conhecimentos e práticas dos participantes no cuidado dos pés para a prevenção do pé diabético. RESULTADOS A avaliação dos cuidados na prevenção do pé diabético mostra conhecimentos de níveis baixo e médio, enquanto as práticas foram medianamente adequadas. CONCLUSÕES Os resultados dos conhecimentos e práticas orientadas para a prevenção do pé diabético não pouco animadores, e frente a este panorama são relevantes os programas de atenção primária, onde de utilize uma educação efetiva da parte de enfermeiros, como mecanismo para modificar os comportamentos de pessoas com Diabetes Mellitus.

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“…This is because it commonly occurs in DM and has great possibilities of incapacitating the individual, thus causing loss of thermal, painful and tactile sensitivity as a result of blood glucose decompensation. 26 There were limitations in the study, such as the repetition of users during the months following the data collection for the quarterly return and the reduction of the sample size in the glycemic control variable in the last visit, because this datum was not recorded. The contributions were diverse, such as the health education process by means of meetings with the team and patients with diabetes in which we clarified the main pieces of doubt found regarding foot care, alterations that should be a reason for warning of major complications, prevention of ulcers and amputations.…”

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Sensorimotor Alterations and Associated Factors in Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Brito

Oliveira

Sousa

et al. 2020

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Objective: to evaluate sensorimotor alterations in the extremities of the lower limbs and associated factors in Diabetes Mellitus patients. Method: this was a cross-sectional and analytical study, conducted in a Basic Health Unit, in Teresina (Brazil) with a sample of 102 participants between April and July 2018, by means of a semi-structured form. For the statistical analyses, the Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were performed. Results: among the study participants, 99 (97.1%) presented alterations, 73 (71.6%) on the skin and 40 (39.2%) on nails. The sensorimotor examination identified 40 (39.22%) individuals with tactile sensitivity alterations and 13 (12.7%) with reduced vibratory sensitivity, using the 128 Hz tuning fork. The factors associated with sensorimotor alterations detected by the 10 gram monofilament were the following: time of disease over ten years; absence of periodic foot evaluation (p=0.003); impaired visual acuity (p=0.001); presence of pain or discomfort (p=0.003); pain worsening at night (p=0.008); moderate pain intensity (p=0.012) and relief at rest (p=0.015). Conclusion: sensory alterations in the lower limbs showed their relationship with some of the research variables, such as time of disease, foot evaluation, glycemic value, presence of pain or discomfort (worsening and relief shifts, and intensity), skin coloring and vibratory sensitivity evaluation with a tuning fork.

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Knowledge, attitudes and practices for the prevention of diabetic foot

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

Assessment of Preventive Foot Care Practices among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type II

Assessment of Preventive Foot Care Practices among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type II

Conhecimentos e práticas para a prevenção do pé diabético

Sensorimotor Alterations and Associated Factors in Diabetes Mellitus Patients

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